Dollars Quotes - Page 21

• The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  New York, Law, Everyday

  "The Physicist". Interview with Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

  Richard Neal

  Years, Numbers, Cost

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• I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

  Oliver North

  Kids, Marine, Vietnam

  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

  Bill Nye

  Real, Inference, Used

  "Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ Talks Creationism Critique, Religion, Education". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Needs, Pay, Bills

  "Sinéad O'Connor: 'I define success differently'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Military, Soldier, Battle

  Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.147, Doubleday Canada

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• People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  People, Giving, Campaigns

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2013.

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• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  Barack Obama

  Creativity, Responsibility, Thinking

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• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Kids, Cutting

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

  Conor Oberst

  Organization, Space, Political

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• Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

  Yoko Ono

  Needs, Billions

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• This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Distance, Promise, Tunes

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• I think that I know the value of a dollar.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Knows, Values

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• You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

  Mike Pence

  Government, Care, Bills

  "Why Read the Health Care Bill?". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 28, 2009.

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• The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

  Katy Perry

  Wedding, Millions, Presses

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• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Texas

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• [Under Obama,] our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.

  Rick Perry

  Abortion, World, Used

  "Texas' Perry Assails Obama on Abortion at Stop in Los Angeles". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2011.

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• President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

  Rick Perry

  Government, America, President

  "Don’t call it a stimulus" by Aaron Blake and Chris Cillizza, www.washingtonpost.com. September 09, 2011.

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• I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Fifty

  "E=MO²". Comedy Album, 1985.

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• Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.

  Dan Rather

  College, Degrees, Cost

  "College on the Cheap" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

  Eric Ries

  Twenties, Acquisition, Campaigns

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• My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars.

  Chris Rock

  Years, Firsts, Snl

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• In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Sports, Teamwork, Play

  "Linda Ronstadt a Solderada for a time such as this". Interview with Dr. Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. June 18, 2010.

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• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  Karl Rove

  Past, Wish, Causes

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• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  Karl Rove

  Country, Team, Growth

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