Norman Ornstein Quotes
Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.
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I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.
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Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.
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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
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A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.
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I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.
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The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
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I make a lot of money off featuring, doing songs with up-and-coming artists. I can charge someone $10,000 to $15,000 to do one song.
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Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.
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Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.
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Congress as a whole needs to step back and look at the way it conducts its business. It's not just lobbyists influencing members of Congress, it's members of Congress shaking down lobbyists for money.
