Charles O. Rossotti Quotes
The cost of taxpayer compliance with the tax code is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of the IRS budget
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
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It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.
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If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
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We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.
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I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
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Guys that are playing in the preseason are one play away from being a starter.
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Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.
