Quarters Quotes - Page 18

• When McDonald's opened up in Moscow - I happened to be there when it opened and wandered in. And the Russians were queuing three times around the block to get in. And when they got to the head of the queue, they'd go, "I'll have a Big Mac please. Have you the cheese and the rolls? And do you have the meat and do you have the salad?" And everybody asks this because they are so used to things being awful that it took them a quarter of an hour to order a Big Mac.

  John Gimlette

  Block, Mcdonalds, Order

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

  Milton Friedman

  School, Kids, Problem

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I walked away from everybody I knew. I locked myself in a loft that I rented, like I told you, where I was rolling quarters for cigarettes. I was having to borrow money off of the rent guy... the real estate agent that was renting me the loft.

  Shane Bunting

  Real, Guy, Rolling

  Source: 411mania.com

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• After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Peace of mind can transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal residence an imprisoning shell.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Peace, Hands, Goal

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• People go to Vegas, and they don't know what to do; here's what you do. You go to the casino in your hotel. On your arrival, you get $100 in quarters. Take that $100 back to your hotel room and stare at it for a long, long time. Why? Because you're never going to see them again. Then you take those quarters to the bathroom and you flush them, one by one by one. And the nice thing about that is that every so often the toilet will back up, and you'll feel like a WINNER!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Nice, Humor

  "The White Album". Comedy album, 2000.

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• I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• Production cutbacks have remained in place in the third quarter and this has helped to further reduce inventory levels worldwide.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Inventory, Levels

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• We have experienced highly challenging global market conditions in the past quarter with significant steel price decline in all regions.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Past, Challenges

  "Mittal profits drop by 63% but steel group still seeks big buys" by Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2005.

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• Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.

  Alexander Payne

  Years, Battle, Adults

  Source: deadline.com

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• There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Environmental, Earth, Sacred

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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• Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

  Jonathan Davis

  Block, Cities, Long

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• For example, you can eat a Caesar salad and say, "Wow, I ate so healthy today." You forget there was a quarter-cup of oil in there, and all the calories are from fat. So it's better if you eat a grilled chicken breast, some steamed brown rice, and a little salad with balsamic vinegar on top.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Oil, Healthy, Caesar Salad

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Time, Suitors, Dinner

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• I think something like three-quarters of American currency is held abroad, by drug dealers, by tax evaders, Russians and Chinese. Other people think that they want to protect themselves against their own currency going down. When you have 75% of the currency and even more of the high-denomination $100 bills held abroad, you wonder whether these are people we really want to pay. If you get rid of the $100 bills, its foreign holders will be the main losers.

  Michael Hudson

  Thinking, People, Drug

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Infidelity, Lovers, Eternity

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• Donald Trump's campaign has raised about $100,000 in donations during the second quarter. Which raises an important question: Who is giving Donald Trump money? That's like giving your money to a pile of money.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Giving, Important, Campaigns

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• Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Pigs, Bulls, Bears

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• Everybody would be better off if they could buy housing for only, let's say, a carrying charge of one-quarter of their income. That used to be the case 50 years ago. Buyers had to save up and make a higher down payment, giving them more equity - perhaps 25 or 30 percent. But today, banks are creating enough credit to bid up housing prices again.

  Michael Hudson

  Years, Creating, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

  William James

  Ideas, Consistency, Stability

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism: Human Understanding”, p.75, 谷月社

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• There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well: Everything from the
  toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your
  eye by the checkout: corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Eye, Shine On, Average

  Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.31, Penguin

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• Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Viruses, Growing

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.155, Holt Paperbacks

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• I still do intense interval training. I like miles and quarters best. In races I can set my mind, and I believe I could break 2:20 again.

  Catherine Ndereba

  Believe, Race, Training

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• American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

  Richard Louv

  Family, Children, Divorce

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.

  David Rolf

  Mom, Jobs, Kids

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Beautiful, Swans, Ugly Duckling

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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