Billions Quotes - Page 18

• Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

  Nelly

  Reality, Turns, Millions

  Song: Tho Dem Wrappas, Album: Country Grammar

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• A billion people died on the news tonight.

  Jack Johnson

  Art, Media, People

  Song: The News, Album: Brushfire Fairytales

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• The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Technology, People

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• Twitter is currently valued at $8 billion, or $1 for every hour it has wasted.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Technology, Hours

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• [Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.

  George Wald

  Science, Origin Of Life, Order

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Years, Luxury, Dollars

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• Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Race, Agriculture, Events

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• We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Water, Needs

  "Earth population 'exceeds limits'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 31, 2009.

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• At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

  Judd Gregg

  Real, Numbers, Half

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• I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Heart, Mind, Doe

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• Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Oil, Goal

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• When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

  Abdallah II

  War, Winning, Lessons

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• And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Two, Light, Korea

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• American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

  Caroline Knapp

  Girl, School, Air

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• I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

  Josh Mandel

  Country, Government, Ohio

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• The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.

  Fritjof Capra

  Fashion, Philosophy, Cells

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• Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office.

  John Kasich

  Jobs, Loss, Office

  "Governors Scott Walker, John Kasich speak at RNC". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same bigger object in four dimensions? ...What if humanity- that collective noun we so often employ- really is, at a higher level, a singular noun? What it what we perceive in three dimensions as seven billion individual human beings are really all just aspects of one giant being?

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Thinking, Humanity, What If

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• 2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Military, Night, Israel

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• If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Country, Fighting, Cutting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

  Thomas Peterffy

  Lifetime, Taxes, Paid

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• Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Years, Culture

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• There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

  Li Peng

  Country, Population, World

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• When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

  Pauley Perrette

  Video, Bartending, Goes On

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