“My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.” IfsKnowsMillionsMinutesProduceAreasLocalsCooksRecipesMondayThursday Author:Jamie Oliver
“Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.” YearsStillsEnergyHoursMillionsTechnologyProduceResearchPercentIraqNineAlternativesHopefulElectricitySolar Power Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!” IfsWantWritingArtMillionsProducePaintingMaterialsRaisesDollarsPursueMy TimeSculptureMillion DollarsMotion Pictures Author:Orson Welles
“Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.” Has BeensIdeasPhilosophyFacesLife IsCausesMillionsEffectsProduceExcitingNotionHarmAbsurdReputationPlentyNo IdeaAbstractDaily LifeSuggestionsRelativismPower Of IdeasDemoralizedWorking Alone Book:The Culture We Deserve Source: The Culture We Deserve
“We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.” IfsThinkingMenTryingBelieveDoeIdeasMatterWholeWisdomDiesFunChurchReligiousAnswersForgetExistenceMillionsProducePropertyProductionsPossessionDeafPrestigeMarking TimeExperiencing God Author:Erich Fromm
“Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.” IfsHumansWisdomCertainPoliticsMillionsEconomyProduceMaterialsBenefitsAdvantageSlaverySlaveHonestlyCommunismPermanentOfficialsLiberalismManifestDreadDevotedStarvationImposingFrailtyHuman Frailties Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.” IfsMayIdeasHumanityBrainConsciousnessMillionsProduceDetermineCellsCooperationSectionsPlausibleSingularity Author:John B. S. Haldane
“As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.” LittlesTwoBookTurnsPassionStarsViewsMillionsPiecesStyleProduceFilledInsightPoint Of ViewMemoirUpliftingProseWickedSense Of HumorTwilightFierceDisturbingOutrageDistinctiveBloggersMillion Little Pieces Author:Arianna Huffington
“The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.” FilmResultsMillionsMediaProduceHugeCostWasteNewsHearingExplorationInvestigationSpace ExplorationNasaKevinNews Media Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.” MenShouldYearsLongWhiteMillionsProducePaidCelebrateIndianDecentSaviorCelebrationWhite ManTurkeysSlaughterDeliverance Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt
“I spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce.” PeopleYearsMillionsProduceTenStudiosChinesePizzaChinese Food Author:R. Kelly
“Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.” PeopleYearsStillsPoliticalPoorPovertyMillionsDemocracyNew YorkProduceTheoryPoliticianEasierBenefitsProgramVoteFavorsAriseRangeTargetBroadsConspiracyPoor PeoplePolitical SystemsConspiracy TheoryMaoStock ExchangeNew York StockNew York Stock Exchange Book:Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
“The left's inability to understand the most basic economic fact - that people need an incentive to produce - has caused the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of people - mostly poor - in the last 75 years. But thanks to a politically corrupted media and educational system, their pigheaded pursuit of socialist fantasies goes on.” PeopleNeedsYearsFactsLastsLeftPoorMillionsFantasyEconomicMediaProduceGoes OnEducationalPursuitThanksSocialistUnnecessaryInabilityIncentivesEducational System Author:David Horowitz
“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.” TodayEvilRaceMillionsRichWiseSeaMankindProduceSeriousThousandHundredDollarsCharityObstaclesImprovementNineCuresFiftyThrownBeing WiseUnworthy Author:Andrew Carnegie
“The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.” WorldAmericaUsedCausesMillionsProduceTelevisionAround The WorldSatanEnviedGood Causes Author:Pat Boone
“In some areas, [Getty Images has] more images than the rest of the market put together. But libraries are being built up at a terrific pace. A photographer in a lifetime will produce maybe a million images, and there are about 15,000 professionals at work out there.” TogetherMillionsProduceBuiltAreasLifetimePhotographerLibraryWork OutPaceTerrific Author:Mark Getty
“There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us black'I find it of grave importance to implement African images, and especially to produce media images that acknowledge the sexual power and fertility of black women.” PeopleMenCountryAmericaBlackMillionsMediaProduceHonorImportanceGravesHatedAcknowledgeBlack PeopleAncestorBlack WomenWombFertilityAfrican Women Author:Kola Boof
“Ted Cruz said he wanted to find a compromise. Ted Cruz said he wanted to bring 11 million people out of the shadows. Ted Cruz said that he wanted immigration reform to pass. Here's the bottom line. I tried to solve a very difficult issue, and we tried to produce the best and most conservative bill possible in a Senate controlled by Harry Reid at the time, and then send it over to the House and have them, conservatives, make it even better.” PeopleSaidWantedHouseDifficultLinesMillionsIssuesProduceShadowBillsBottomConservativeSolveImmigrationCompromiseReformControlledSenateBottom LineCruzImmigration Reform Author:Marco Rubio
“I'm going to try to do as many styles as I can. A salsa number, rock and roll, country.... I've talked to a million people about it. Obviously, I'd love Prince to do it. I'm sure he'll produce the whole album for me.” PeopleTryingI CanCountryWholeNumbersMillionsRocksStyleProduceAlbumsRock And RollSalsa Author:Paul Reubens
“A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water.” PeopleHumansArtUseHomeEarthSpiritualCausesProcessWaterNaturalBrainPracticeMillionsSunProduceFlowerPerspectiveLessonsOffersProjectsGardenPlantSmellGenuineSoilBiologyAdmirationChemistryPassagesGardeningEcologyOngoingParticipatingImpartHuman BrainGeologySpiritual PracticePassage Of TimePharmacyBrain PowerMeteorologyArt Projects Author:Jim Nollman
“We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.” IfsAmericaBitsMillionsProduceWastePlantAlcoholFuelGallonsSewage Author:Josh Tickell
“According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New Deal, today. According to his estimate, these jobs could be created for far less than the [Barack] Obama stimulus package, which cost, you know, $700 or $800 billion, something like that, and produced around 3 million jobs - not a lot. According to his estimates, it would cost less to produce two-thirds of 20 million.” KnowsTwoTodayJobsNamesDealsMillionsExampleProduceCostThirdsBillionsBarackAcademicPackagesStimulusExpertisePhilipHarveyNew Deal Author:Jill Stein
“It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.” WayHumansTwoCountryPoliticalJusticeMillionsEconomicProduceCapableDignityTwentiesLaysEggsChickensDucksIncapableHuman DignityEconomic SystemsEquality And JusticeTwenty TwoAfros Author:Malcolm X
“Anyway, what is a country? When people say, "Tell me about India," I say, "Which India?.... The land of poetry and mad rebellion? The one that produces haunting music and exquisite textiles? The one that invented the caste system and celebrates the genocide of Muslims and Sikhs and the lynching of Dalits? The country of dollar billionaires? Or the one in which 800 million live on less than half-a-dollar a day? Which India?"” PeopleCountryHalfMillionsLandProduceIndiaMadDollarsCelebrateRebellionGenocideHauntingExquisiteBillionaireCastesLynchingCaste SystemTextiles Author:Arundhati Roy
“Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.” JobsLostGrowthMillionsClearCuttingEconomicPolicyProduceTaxesFellowsDemocraticFaultsPrioritiesEconomic GrowthTax Cuts Author:Nancy Pelosi
“The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.” PeopleNeedsUnderstandingLeadershipPartyMillionsTroubleStreetsProduceWillingEuropeTradeUnionsBritainLabourEasternPhilippinesLabour PartyEastern EuropeTrade Unions Author:Arthur Scargill
“No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.” ShouldFormSufferingMillionsProduceSocialismCommunismDelusionInitiativeDictatorshipProsperous Author:Charles E. Wilson