Zero Quotes - Page 15

• You have almost zero chance of being killed by a refugee in America. You have almost no chance of being killed in a terrorist attack by an immigrant - by any kind of immigrant, let alone an Islamic immigrant.

  Reza Aslan

  Islamic, America, Chance

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Grandchildren, Space, People

  Source: www.madre.org

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• The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

  Alan Greenspan

  United States, Debt, Pay

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• Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

  Paul S. Kemp

  Ceilings, Reader, Originals

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Home, Grew Up, Starting

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.

  Carly Fiorina

  Moving, Class, Support

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

  David Shuster

  People, Towers, Manhattan

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• When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.

  Bill Gates

  People, Want, Easy

  "Bill Gates Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates". Interview with James Coates, articles.chicagotribune.com. March 24, 1996.

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• The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

  Jim Himes

  Games, Political, World

  "Jim Himes, Former Goldman Sachs Executive, Introduces Bill To Roll Back Key Element Of Dodd-Frank". Connecticut Mirror Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 07, 2013.

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• I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.

  World, Starting, Reporters

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• Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

  Nancy Meyers

  Team, Men, Medicine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.

  Tucker Max

  Play, Roulette

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

  James Salter

  Writing, Way, Enough

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• My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

  Lee Radziwill

  Childhood, Taught

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• I missed the day in school where you subtract all the zeros. Let's say you subtract 10,000 minus 89. I never got the fact that you go next door and borrow a cup of coffee, and the zero changes to nine. For the longest time, I didn't know how to do it. I still to this day have been affected, and it was just one day they taught it. I was too afraid to say, "Why? What's going on with the zeroes?" So for the longest time, I thought that was a conspiracy.

  Rich Fulcher

  Coffee, School, Doors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

  Michael Kimmel

  Winning, Men, Data

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• In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.

  Doug Larson

  Dog, Cat, Merit

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• I do admire [Willie] Wonka. He's a true capitalist. His factory has zero government regulations, slave labor and an indoor boat. Wonderful.

  Alec Baldwin

  Government, Slave Labor, Regulation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.

  Ted Cruz

  Data, Years, Lasts

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• I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humility, Men, Long

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.35, A&C Black

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• Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?

  L. Neil Smith

  Thinking, Games, People

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• You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a very shy person in those days, and working with Zero [Mostel], who was bigger than life, helped me grow. Zero was a strong influence on me.

  Gene Wilder

  Strong, Character, Insecure

  Source: keranews.org

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• As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping.

  J. Budziszewski

  Country, Children, America

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• I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to his face, and he gave me a kiss on the lips. And all my nervousness went out the window.

  Gene Wilder

  Kissing, Hands, Faces

  Source: keranews.org

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• I'm always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it's the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know - the voice represents everything about the character, that's why.

  Frank Oz

  Character, Voice, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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