Budgets Quotes - Page 16

• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Fisher Stevens

  Movie, New York, Cities

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

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• We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.

  Cliff Stearns

  Donors, United Nations, Peacekeeping

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• The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Style, Television, Changed

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• Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

  Skitch Henderson

  Stars, Writing, Play

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• To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.

  Jack Valenti

  Russia, Risk, Bosnia

  "Public Endorses Uplifting Movies, Dole Tells Hollywood" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. July 31, 1996.

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• NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean, Years, Space

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• Budget: a way of going broke methodically

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Way, Broke

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• We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Preparation, Veils

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• As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

  Corrine Brown

  Fighting, Cbc, White

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• We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

  Jim Talent

  Army, Needs, Defense

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• The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

  Ted Cruz

  Agency, Nasa, Committees

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• In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.

  Zell Miller

  Military, Government, Years

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• The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.

  Howard Dean

  Retirement, Moving, Cutting

  Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2003.

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• The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Years, Program, Medicare

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• I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.

  Ed Pastor

  Country, Responsibility, Economy

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• Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget.

  Edgar Wright

  Ideas, Done, Benefits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.

  Lou Lumenick

  Brother, Example, Comedy

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• But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

  Philip Kaufman

  Canada, Film, Reason

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. February 27, 2004.

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• There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Mean, Differences, Giving

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• What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

  Eric Ries

  What If, Matter, Building Something

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.37, Crown Business

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• It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Amendments, Agree, Balanced

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• A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

  Mark Foley

  Office, Energy, Cost

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• Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

  Paul Davies

  Jobs, Orbit, Phases

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Military, War, Long

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• In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

  David Yates

  Drama, Hollywood Films, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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