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“I get a million ideas a day and I don't put too much weight on any one of them. The ones that really stick in my head are the ones I end up doing.”

Ideas Ends Millions Too Much Weight Sticks

Author:Justin Zackham

“From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.”

People Ends Country States Government America Fighting Process United Millions United States Movement Despair Crush Regimes Agony End Of Life Populist

Author:William Blum

“Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?”

People Ends Jobs Loses Pay Company Millions Groups Dollars Bunch Employee Fairness Fees Pension Dividends

Author:William D. Cohan

“In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.”

Ends Stories Millions Successful Massive Music Business

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.”

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.”

Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

“The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.”

Ends Millions Successful Ten Percent Investors Probability Coins Consecutive Tossers

Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

“The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.”

Ends Turns Left Perfect Millions Events Democratic Debt Circles Kicks Seconds Conventions Motor Charlotte

Author:Jay Leno

“A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.”

Men Ends Hands Fall Left Lines Millions Graves Chains Reform Remove Links Ancestor Apes Suspended

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.”

Thinking Knows Writing Years Book Ends Problem Eye Millions Written Reader Solitude Hundred Upset One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.”

People Ends Asks Millions Worried Usa Permission Net Neutrality Web 2.0

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.”

Ifs World Years Has Beens Two Ends Lasts Millions Century Currents Determined Global Warming Trends Hotter

Book:Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?

Source: Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?

“What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.”

People Art Ends Millions Expression Entertainment Cinema The End Of The Day Dilemma

Author:Paddy Considine

“Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.”

Art Ends Millions Feet Rocks Individuality Curls Wigs Ells

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?”

World Persons Ends Facts Body Government Millions Listening Fool Circumstances Six Hundred Twenties Seven Eight Accomplished Fifty Miscellaneous

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.”

Stills War Soul Ends Body Spirit Suffering Three Millions Four Victory Thousand Hundred Wounds Vietnam Sixty Veteran Vietnam War Recovering

Book:When Heaven & Earth Change Places

Source: When Heaven & Earth Change Places

“It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.”

Ifs Should Ends Play Government Given Easy Millions Terrible Drama Tough Pounds Terrible Things Coalitions Pubs

Author:Russell T Davies

“You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.”

People Ifs World Wells Persons Ends Done Stories Process Interesting Millions Dying Engaging End Of The World Interesting Life People Dying Interesting Stories

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched misery if they could find no buyers, the so called “equality before the law” remains a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves in possession of the social wealth. But in the same way there can also be no talk of a “right over one's own person,” for that right ends when one is compelled to submit to the economic dictation of another if he does not want to starve.”

“People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.”

People Thinking Ends Facts Half Millions Unfortunate Woodstock

Author:Grace Slick

“Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.”

Ends Millions Records Selling The End Of The Day

Author:TobyMac

“You can never be perfect. But you can always do a million good things, for yourself and for others. Start and end your day with good things and whatever challenges you face in between only make you stronger.”

Ends Motivational Faces Challenges Perfect Millions Stronger Good Things Makes You Stronger

Author:Rita Zahara

“I don't like to end my talk with a 700 million dollar loss, even if it shows the importance of Numerical Analysis.”

Ifs Ends Shows Science Loss Millions Importance Mathematics Dollars Analysis Million Dollars

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today.”

Source: Minority Report

“Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors and engaging high-quality investment managers to provide professional insight. The conventional wisdom ends up hopelessly unwise, as evidence shows an overwhelming rate of failure by mutual funds to deliver on promises.”

“In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.”

People Needs Ends Jobs Fighting Views Pay Millions Policy Program Raises Trade Massive Womens Rights Minimum Equity Men Women Minimum Wage Back To Work Living Wage

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Our country is in serious trouble. We don't win anymore.We don't beat China in trade. We don't beat Japan, with their millions and millions of cars coming into this country, in trade. We can't beat Mexico, at the border or in trade.We can't do anything right. Our military has to be strengthened. Our vets have to be taken care of. We have to end Obamacare, and we have to make our country great again, and I will do that.”

Ends Country Care Winning Millions Taken Trouble Military Car Serious Beats Trade China Our Country Borders Japan Mexico Obamacare Vets

Author:Donald Trump

“What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi regime not shooting at UK and US aircraft almost every day? What is the value of the Iraqis having a free press? What is the value of the foreign minister of Iraq going to Paris, calling for an end of the Gadhafi regime and citing Iraq as a model, as an example, that in fact a freer political system can exist in that part of the world?”

People World Ends Facts Political Values Millions Example Calling Models Presses Iraq Shooting Ministers Paris Regimes Political Systems Aircraft Free Press Citing

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work.”

Way Made Ends Reason Social Millions Crime New York Dollars Budgets Epidemics

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not the end of the world, although we may be when it comes to it. We're just one species among millions in this world.”

People World May Ends Helping Remember Millions This World Research Scientist Species Population Just One Help Me Biology End Of The World

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“The real magic in National Geographic isn't how much money they have left at the end of the year. It's the fact that through their overall focus they are reaching hundreds of millions of people and educating people about the world. It just happens to be done in a business-oriented kind of way that is more sustainable.”

People World Way Years Kind Real Ends Done Facts Happens Left Business Millions Focus Magic Reaching National Geographic

Author:Steve Case

“By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought remotely, and in hazily speculative fashion. And now, it was approaching in a manner of which none had ever dreamed.”

Years Ends Earth Millions Fashion Eternity Apocalypse Earth Day

Book:The House on the Borderland: Horror Stories Collections

Source: The House on the Borderland: Horror Stories Collections

“At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million dollar independent film. I did a lot more physical work than I'd probably have to do for a two million dollar independent film with four months of training and stuff. But as far as the character's psychology or emotional life goes, I treat it just the same.”

“Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been shot on locations that you've seen a million times. Because this world has no rules, you're seeing so many different and separate brushstrokes and colors and characterizations somehow getting combined through Tim.”

World Different Ends Film Imagination Millions Seeing This World Color Shots Location Characterization

Author:Anne Hathaway

“Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.”

May Said Soul Ends Whole Moments Body Eye Age Pain Suffering Millions Hell Alive Possibility Smart Ears Extremes Mythology Intense Instant Torment Trembling Duration Fainting Intermission

Author:John Wesley

“I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.”

Ends Happens Father Differences Millions Five Fame Performances Dollars Fifty The End Of The Day Million Dollars

Author:Tom Hardy

“I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, 'You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,' because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .”

Knows Firsts Said Ends Play Character Millions Blood Dollars Suggestions First Blood

Author:Kirk Douglas

“Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.”

Wells Ends Country Hard Home Dream Wanted Speak Parent Poor Millions Brother Hard Work Six My Family Stores My Brother Immigrants Shopping American Dream Malls Fleas Speak English Flea Markets

Author:Ted Lieu

“If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.”

People Ifs Believe Doe War Ends Millions

Author:H. G. Wells

“If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.”

Ifs World Way Years Looks Ends Religious Millions Four This World Thousand Six Hundred Afternoon

Author:Arundhati Roy

“When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.”

Two Ends Political Company Millions Republican Directors Program Vote Campaigns Chiefs Fantastic Borders Staff Committees Romney Violation Rico Chief Of Staff

Author:Patrick Caddell

“Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan.”

People Ifs Ends Millions Wise Plans Higher Thousand Percent Gains Yeah Math More Money Percentages

Author:Ted Cruz

“In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!”

Ends Country Millions Majority Ignorant Nightmare

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!”

Has Beens Ends Fall Simple Ability Leader Millions Clear Mass Stupidity Ignorant Proven Once Upon A Time Ability To See Simple Truths Ignorant Masses

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.”

Giving Years Ends Millions Make The Best Of It

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love Dare. It was for couples. That book had a much larger impact than we expected. As a matter of fact, if I could use the term "overwhelmed," we were. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and sold over five-million copies and is now in 28 different countries and languages. So, we were blessed and just surprised at how well that did.”

“Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?”

Men Years Children Ends Dies Courses Born Millions Five He Man Wall Bones Billions Thirty Insignificant Imports Mao Plentiful Oddballs Great Wall

Book:For the Time Being

Source: For the Time Being

“What's at the end of a million dollars? Zero, zero, zero... nothing. A circle with a hole in it.”

Ends Millions Dollars Circles Holes Zero Million Dollars

Author:Humphrey Bogart

“(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.”

Ends Helping Attention Half Millions Week Tvs Fellows Wit Chosen Mediums Dedicated Editing Propositions

Author:Terry Teachout

“It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.”

Ifs World Ends Action Millions Week Scene Making Changes Finishing Screening Premieres

Author:John Francis Daley