Numbers Quotes - Page 6

• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

  David Rockefeller

  New York, Powerful, Cities

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

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• Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

  Nile Rodgers

  Powerful, Real, Marketing

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• If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Thinking, Aggravation

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• To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

  Henry Rollins

  Two, Months, Haircuts

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• If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.

  Christina Romer

  Blow, Government, Years

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• I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

  Andy Rooney

  Mean, Thinking, Government

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• It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Peace, War, Pride

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.196, NYU Press

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• When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, America, People

  "Arundhati Roy: "We May Not Need Peace in This Unjust Society; You Need People Who Are Prepared to Resist"". "Democracy Now!" Interview, www.alternet.org. March 23, 2010.

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• I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Years, Two

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• Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Dams, Lawyer, Middle

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Unattractive

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• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Sight, People

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• The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

  Salman Rushdie

  Years, Rising, Sides

  "The Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie". Interview with Shaun Randol, lareviewofbooks.org. April 25, 2013.

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• He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Ideas, Literature

  Modern Painters vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1843)

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• That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Noble, Literature

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Hippie

  Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

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• I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

  Richard Russo

  Firsts, Enormous, Novel

  "Russo: Novelist, fan of first books". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.boston.com. October 9, 2011.

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• What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Attitude, Thinking

  "Politico" Interview, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.

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• How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.

  John Salazar

  Country, War, Fighting

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• Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

  Pierre Salinger

  Believe, Understanding, Crisis

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• While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stars, Expectations

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• Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Space, Growing

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• Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Military, Philosophical, Way

  "On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg," Libération, June 22, 1953.

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• As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Views, Political, Unions

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• In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

  Dan Savage

  Agreement, Adoption, Ceilings

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