Office Quotes - Page 24

• I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

  Yash Chopra

  Passion, Able, Belief

  "The Scene" Interview, edition.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.

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• I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Portraits, Saint, Saint Thomas

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• You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Looks, Kind, Claims

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• The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell

  President, Defense, Cost

  "Senator Plans To Probe Clinton's Use Of White House Lawyers". www.cnn.com. April 4, 1998.

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• You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

  Eleanor Clift

  Males, Vote, Environment

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• I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

  Neve Campbell

  Nudity, Boxes, Draws

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• My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

  Neve Campbell

  Past, Issues, Nudity

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• Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.

  P. Chidambaram

  Mean, Independent, Exercise

  "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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• These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.

  Paul Cellucci

  Team, Law, Criminals

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• I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

  Salmon P. Chase

  White, Black, Salary

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• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  Vince Cable

  Team, London, Disaster

  Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.

  Jo Ann Davis

  Home, Phones, Cells

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• The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Technology, Priorities, Energy

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• The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Stars, Texas, Energy Use

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• Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

  Bob Etheridge

  Levels, Republican, Corruption

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• Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

  Charles Edison

  Foundation, Purpose, Fundamentals

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• I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

  Anthony Foxx

  Morning, Thinking, Long

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• I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

  James Frey

  Couple, Book, Home

  "James Frey’s Own Personal Jesus". Interview with Nate Freeman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.

  Kate Flannery

  Heart, Things I Love, Wells

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• I was deliciously happy filming True Blood. I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any script. Although I did shred them all in one go when the series finished; it seemed like a ritual, somehow.

  Michelle Forbes

  Blood, Scripts, Ritual

  "The Killing star Michelle Forbes: why I avoided watching Forbrydelsen". Interview with Eleanor Morgan, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2011.

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• After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

  Joshua Ferris

  College, Artist, Interesting

  "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

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• The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.

  Joshua Ferris

  Crush, Desire, Pressure

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• Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

  Vito Fossella

  Russia, President, High Standards

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• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  Bart Gordon

  Tennessee, Facts, Staff

  "Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon (D) To Retire". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 14, 2009.

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• If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Country, Acceptance, Loss

  Christopher Gadsden (1966). “The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805”, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press

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