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• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• I don't believe in having safety nets - you'll end up using them!

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Safety

• I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • American
  • America

• I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Job

• You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Connection

• I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Career

• I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Day
  • End
  • Win

• Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Me
  • Wall

• We have found that the most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Believe
  • Vision
  • End

• Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Fear
  • End

• I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Song
  • Text

• I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Up
  • China

• And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

  

  Bill Gates
  • End
  • Knowledge management

• I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Up
  • Path
  • Wall

• I usually end up making a huge mess every morning when I get dressed. My outfit affects my whole day. I'm always running late, and I'm always trying to make sure I feel really good in what I'm wearing, because if you're wearing something you're not comfortable in, it ruins your day.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Business
  • Help

• Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • End

• First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Think
  • House

• I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Want
  • End
  • Page

• I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Today
  • Running

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Truth

• The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Great
  • Beginning
  • Story

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