Billions Quotes - Page 39

• I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

  Annie Lennox

  Reality, Dollars, Culture

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• More than a billion people have downloaded Google Earth. More than a billion people use Google Maps. They are very comfortable tools for people to explore the planet in high resolution.

  Rebecca Moore

  People, Google, Earth

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• More than four billion people live within a stone's throw of the ocean, so what happens to it affects them immediately, daily, whether pollution, more frequent storms, or rising sea levels.

  Jon Bowermaster

  Ocean, Sea, People

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• Joy is big. Joy lives in your own drunken electrons, billions of them, spinning and dancing without end in their own intimate Universe, longing for You.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Dancing, Joy, Spinning

  Judith Hanson Lasater (2016). “Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life”, p.125, Shambhala Publications

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• [Tim] Kaine, in Virginia, you know he wasn't popular?His first move as governor of Virginia was to raise taxes by 4 billion dollars. He was not popular in Virginia.

  Donald Trump

  Moving, Virginia, Dollars

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed.

  Moby

  Years, Perspective, Universe

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• By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Risk, Energy

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• Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.

  Gillian Anderson

  Years, Pandemics, Dollars

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are 1.3 billion people today who have no access to electricity. Many of them rely on kerosene lanterns for light, but kerosene is both expensive and hazardous to the health.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Light, People, Today

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• The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling Earth until the Sun turns into a Red Giant, about five billion years from now.

  Trevor Paglen

  Years, Civilization, Orbit

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• Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.

  Russell Simmons

  Animal, Thinking, Abuse

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• He [Barack Obama] is been boffo at fundraising - 220 fundraisers, and he raised something approaching $1 billion.

  Lou Dobbs

  Fundraising, Raised, Fundraiser

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Let the Black man go - stop lying to us that you love us. And if you really love us, let us go and give us some of this territory that we can call our own; and give us the billions of dollars that we can get started with land and with tractors and the things that will make us an independent nation.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Lying, Independent, Men

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Politicians like Prime Minister David Cameron have lost all sense of reality. The people have seen how billions were spent on Greece and Turkey, on deals with Erdogan or for asylum seekers.

  Geert Wilders

  Reality, Turkeys, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're spending billions of euros on them. In Dubai, the police drive Lamborghinis. These countries aren't poor. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states should take care of these people. They're closer, have the same religion, the same climate, the same culture.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Party, Dubai

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• At the end of the day, it's hard to win against the NFL. It's a billion-dollar business, it's hard to win against it. They can manipulate a lot of different things. They can pull strings, they know people. At the end of the day, nine times out of 10, they are going to win.

  Adrian Peterson

  Winning, Nfl, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt.

  Tony Burke

  Government, Challenges, Debt

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• On top of that, illegal immigration costs our country more than $113 billion a year. And this is what we get. For the money we are going to spend on illegal immigration over the next 10 years, we could provide 1 million at-risk students with a school voucher, which so many people are wanting.

  Donald Trump

  Country, School, Years

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

  Vladimir Putin

  Jobs, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Let us not forget that we have two governmental reserve funds: the Reserve Fund and the National Wellbeing Fund that represent together $100 billion.

  Vladimir Putin

  Two, Together, Forget

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.

  Vladimir Putin

  Government, Cost, Reason

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Unity Consciousness is the experience of the 7 billion plus people on the planet being moved by the same force, which is God. It is the awareness to see what we really are: One Living Being. However, this is a truth that really can't be explained with words; the minute you say it, it is no longer truth.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  People, Unity, Consciousness

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• They [ Germany, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] will fully understand. They're economic behemoths. They're tremendously successful countries, but we're subsidizing them for billions and billions of dollars.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Successful, Japan

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Finally, we will have at our disposal additional revenues from unleashing American energy. The Institute for Energy Research cites a short run figure of as much as $36 billion annually from increased energy production, tremendous amounts of money.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Research, Energy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

  John Warren Kindt

  Vegas, Gambling, Pockets

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