Budgets Quotes - Page 21

• I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

  Stuart Symington

  Responsibility, Cutting, Years

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• But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Taken, Thinking, Issues

  "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2012.

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• Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.

  Charles M. Vest

  Country, Stress, Real

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• The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

  Charles M. Vest

  Government, Shifting, Cost

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.

  Douglas Wilder

  Country, Organization, Foundation

  "After debt deal mess, Americans lose" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 03, 2011.

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• In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

  David Yates

  Drama, World, Scripts

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

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• For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.

  Duncan Jones

  Smart, Two, Blade Runner

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

  Mike Lee

  War, Thinking, Practice

  "Tea Party Senator Mike Lee: We Need to Change the Way We Spend Money in Washington". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2011.

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• With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.

  Steven Levitan

  Drama, Character, Interesting

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

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• I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

  Zachary Levi

  Family Guy, Thinking, Want

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• I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

  Brit Marling

  Mean, Thinking, Sometimes

  "Brit Marling Talks Sound of My Voice, the East, Working With Robert Redford in the Company You Keep, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2012.

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• The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.

  S. Robson Walton

  Running, President, Dollars

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• Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Video, Habit, Walks

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• The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

  Dirk Benedict

  Stars, Differences, Film

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• In my political career, I'd like to see a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

  Ken Buck

  Careers, Political, Amendments

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Party, Cutting

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• It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

  Walter Mosley

  Talking, Water, Pirate

  Walter Mosley (2010). “Known to Evil: A Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.115, Penguin

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• People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  People, Goal, Wire

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• I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

  Zoe Kazan

  Girl, Used, Lows

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 05, 2010.

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• I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Secret, Looks, Roger

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• The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

  Jeff Landry

  Maintaining, Navigation, Economic

  "Lawmakers brawl over bayou district" by Jonathan Allen and Adam Snider, www.politico.com. April 15, 2012.

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• On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

  Lukas Haas

  Luxury, Film, Lows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Growing Up, Kids, Frustration

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• I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

  Rider Strong

  Lows

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.

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• I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

  Rider Strong

  Sound, Want, Boring

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