Edmund Burke Quotes
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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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.
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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.
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I'm cranky.
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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.
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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.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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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.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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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.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
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So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?
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We support the efforts to keep the pits open until exhausted.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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The problem is not that this optimistic view is wrong. By economic accounting, the optimistic view is mostly right.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
