Budgets Quotes - Page 27

• I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!

  Ashanti

  Team, Passion, Winning

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• The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Race, People

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• The budget caps were busted, mightily so. And we are reviewing with people like Judd Gregg from New Hampshire and others some budgetary reform measures that will reinstate - you know, possibly reinstate budgetary discipline. But the caps no longer - the caps, I guess they're there. But they didn't mean much.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Mean, Discipline

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• Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat

  Narendra Modi

  Effort, Empowerment, India

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• Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line. ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave -- you may be given the opportunity.

  Pat Heim

  Believe, Opportunity, Boss

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• I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He told me there was a time at the beginning when he was a bit more spontaneous and went over budget, and it absolutely wrecked his head. When you look at the power and assuredness of his movies, it makes sense that he works out so much in advance.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Work Out, Preparation, Looks

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

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• If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Cutting, Defense, Enough

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• In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

  Ron Kind

  War, Cost, Subsidies

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• Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Balance, Rich

  "George Osborne unveils employee 'shares for rights' scheme" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2012.

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• No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

  George Osborne

  Political Will, Order, Law

  House of Commons Debate, publications.parliament.uk. November 26, 2009.

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• Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.

  John Cornyn

  Average, Years, Reform

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• We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

  Mike Quigley

  Accountability, Needs, Transparency

  "Reinventing the Federal Budget" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2010.

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• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? Its simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the states budget around.

  Bart Stupak

  Fighting, Example, Teeth

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• If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Evil, Balance

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.73, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

  Jeff Merkley

  Priorities, Ifs, Statements

  "Kill the GOP Plan to Kill Jobs" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2011.

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• [Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't listened, because they can't relate to those huge numbers.

  Paul Laxalt

  Numbers, People, Republican

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• For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.

  Herbert Stein

  Believe, Years, Office

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• At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

  Neil Marshall

  The End Of The Day, Trying, Film

  Source: movieweb.com

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• When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time.

  Chris Rock

  Four, Bigs, Sheets

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• There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Eye, Long, Bulls

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I am frustrated by celebrities who decide to write children's books because they think it's easy. That drives me crazy. It's frustrating because it's unfair to children. Because they'll get a lot of attention, they'll get a lot of marketing budget and so on just because they're a celebrity - the Madonnas, the Ricky Gervaises, the Russell Brands.

  John Boyne

  Children, Crazy, Book

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• When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.

  Amber Sealey

  Eye, Luxury, Hair

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.

  Trent Reznor

  Marketing, Choir, Found

  "The nine lives of Trent Reznor". Interview with Mark Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2013.

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• For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

  Anthony Weiner

  Cutting, Years, Cities

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• Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Stories, My Favorite, Bigs

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

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