Edmund Burke Quotes
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
Quotes to Explore
-
Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
-
People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
-
I'm cranky.
-
This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
-
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
-
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
-
As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
-
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
-
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
-
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
-
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
-
To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
-
It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
-
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
-
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
-
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
-
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
-
My career is an open book, but my life is not.
-
I try to take everyone's head off, to tell the truth.
-
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
-
The education business is a little murky because by 1900, it has been pretty well decided that a certain amount of education was required to make the system of repression work. You had to have people who showed up punctually. You had to have people who took their orders obediently and understand them fully.
-
I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
-
I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
-
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
