Lisa Madigan Quotes
I've been able to bring billions of dollars back to our state that has so desperately needed it - billions of dollars in relief to homeowners and our communities and our pension systems that desperately need it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
-
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
-
I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.
-
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
-
There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
-
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
-
In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
-
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
-
The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
-
I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
-
If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
-
I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
-
I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.
-
I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
-
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
-
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
-
Reading isn't about managing expectations. In certain ways, writing is. You're trying to send signals early in a book about what might be coming later, but I think worrying about the kind of chatter around a book is something I try and stay as far away from when I'm reading.
-
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.
-
I have the attention span of a rabbit on cocaine.
-
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
-
Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?
-
Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.
-
I've been able to bring billions of dollars back to our state that has so desperately needed it - billions of dollars in relief to homeowners and our communities and our pension systems that desperately need it.
