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.

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• 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.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Future

• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Evil
  • Always
  • Will

• I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Success
  • Lost

• Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Think
  • Party
  • Republican

• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • You
  • Truth Is
  • Minority

• In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Sometimes
  • English
  • Speak

• 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.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • May
  • Like
  • First

• The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • American
  • Judge
  • Green

• I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Recognize
  • Volume
  • Appreciative

• If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Career
  • Myself

• I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Lucky

• 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.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Important
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Book
  • Said
  • Event

• Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Fate

• 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.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Real
  • Money
  • Financial

• 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.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Power
  • Value

• I have the attention span of a rabbit on cocaine.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Attention

• At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

  

  William Adams The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Able

• I think that high school themes are replayed over and over throughout your life, and you try to pretend that it's a phase and that once you're out of high school it's over, but I don't think that's true.

  

  Michael J. Willett
  • School
  • True
  • Pretend

• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  

  William Blake
  • Truth
  • Convincing
  • Defending

• When you're strong and good, then you're Bad.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Strong

• The negative way of describing God is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

  

  George H. Smith
  • Christianity
  • Agnosticism
  • Prop

• 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.

  

  Lisa Madigan