Rick Larsen Quotes

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

Rick Larsen

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• My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Different
  • Dream

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Live
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• Through Gateway to Work, we can provide more of the workers our businesses need to thrive, and we can help give more of our families the opportunity to work their way to self-sufficiency and into the middle class.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Work
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Vision

• I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • California

• But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as great. Also, the opportunity to go back and really rewrite something isn't quite as great, because there's always a new set of features that you're adding on to the same program.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World
  • Money
  • Future

• I've spent a part of my life focused on acting, so if there was an opportunity that I'm right for and I feel confident, I would definitely go for it.

  

  Jessie Pavelka
  • Life
  • Opportunity

• My time at Pop has been a transformative experience that I am extremely proud of. It has afforded me the chance to collaborate with some of the greatest creative minds in the world, and I'm thankful to Ashley Heath and Bauer Media for the opportunity.

  

  Dasha Zhukova
  • Time
  • World
  • Experience

• I don't look at polls. It's about results. And every single time that people have had an opportunity to vote for me, we've been on top.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • People
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Choices

• I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Opportunity

• Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity offered to few presidents: the chance to set the course of the nation for decades, if not generations, to come. Who knows: perhaps in the near future, our grandchildren will spend money with Obama's face on it.

  

  Chuck Todd
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Future

• There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• What's happening in crypto - and certainly what's happening at Ripple - we have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way global commerce is managed from a payments point of view.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse
  • Opportunity

• Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.

  

  Ahmed Rashid
  • Opportunity
  • Window
  • Repair

• Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Faith
  • Light
  • Darkness

• In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

  

  Debbie Macomber
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Feeling

• If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Money
  • Vision

• Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

  

  Rick Larsen
  • Opportunity
  • Families
  • Benefit