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So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.
Author:
David Zucker
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I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
Author:
John Zorn
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I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.
Author:
Abraham Zapruder
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I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.
Author:
Jose Zapatero
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I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.
Author:
Robin Yount
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The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Author:
Deng Xiaoping
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That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
Author:
Early Wynn
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I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.
Author:
April Winchell
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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
Author:
Harold Wilson
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
Author:
Angus Wilson
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I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
Author:
Esther Williams
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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
Author:
Katharine Whitehorn
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
Author:
E. White
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Author:
Mae West
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It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
Author:
William Weld
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All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
Author:
Robert Welch
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
Author:
Allen Weinstein
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If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month.
Author:
Chris Wedge
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I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.
Author:
Hugo Weaving
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I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.
Author:
Gerald Walpin
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What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.
Author:
Marc Wallice
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Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
Author:
A. Vogt
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He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press.
Author:
Henry Villard
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I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.
Author:
Charles Vest
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Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
Author:
Jacques Verges
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
Author:
Jack Vance
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.
Author:
Sigrid Undset
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I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.
Author:
Ivanka Trump
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A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Author:
Harry Truman
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I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.
Author:
Kiana Tom
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So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.
Author:
Charlize Theron
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Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
Author:
George Takei
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Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
Author:
James Stockdale
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I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.
Author:
Henry Stimson
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It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President "polarizing" after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office.
Author:
Jeffrey Stewart
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.
Author:
George Stephanopoulos
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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.
Author:
Kenneth Starr
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After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
Author:
Kenneth Starr
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No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.
Author:
Scott Stapp
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Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.
Author:
Lesley Stahl
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Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
Author:
Jared Sparks
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The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
Author:
John Sousa
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Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
Author:
Duke Snider
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Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.
Author:
Al Smith
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But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?
Author:
Ron Silver
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If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.
Author:
Andrew Shue
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All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
Author:
Roger Sherman
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I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
Author:
George Shaw
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
Author:
George Shaw
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Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
Author:
Yahoo Serious
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The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
Author:
William Scranton
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The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
Author:
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
Author:
Marilyn Savant
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Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.
Author:
Jennifer Saunders
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It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
Author:
Eisaku Sato
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We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.
Author:
Susan Sarandon
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If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.
Author:
Rick Santorum
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It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.
Author:
Paul Samuelson
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I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.
Author:
Gabriela Sabatini
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He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.
Author:
Mark Rydell
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Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'
Author:
Paul Ryan
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While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
Author:
George Ryan
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Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
Author:
Charles Ruff
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Author:
Rita Rudner
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
Author:
Galen Rowell
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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.
Author:
James Roosevelt
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The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare.
Author:
Christina Romer
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And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
Author:
Christy Romano
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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There is absolutely no way that I would enter that world. I would never run for office.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.
Author:
Jodi Rell
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I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
Author:
Orville Redenbacher
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I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
Author:
Maureen Reagan
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We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.
Author:
Dixie Ray
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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Author:
Leopold Ranke
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We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.
Author:
Colin Quinn
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Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.
Author:
Ben Quayle
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The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.
Author:
James Polk
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I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
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The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
Author:
Emo Philips
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I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.
Author:
Rick Perry
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As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.
Author:
Rosie Perez
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I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
Author:
Nancy Pelosi
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Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars.
Author:
Rob Paulsen
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I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
Author:
Rand Paul
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You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
Author:
Jason Patric
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I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.
Author:
George Pataki
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
Author:
Paracelsus
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Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
Author:
P. O'Rourke
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It's easier to run for office than to run the office.
Author:
Thomas O'Neill
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
Author:
Ted Olson
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
Author:
Barbara Olson
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I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.
Author:
Edward Olmos
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The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!
Author:
Andrew Oliver
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I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.
Author:
William Odom
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I pretty much live about 10 minutes from my office. I have two kids, and I have about 8 projects that I'm working on, so I basically just get up and go to work, and go home every night and play with my kids, so I don't really know.
Author:
Bob Odenkirk
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I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Author:
Barack Obama
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Author:
Barack Obama
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I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.
Author:
Jim Nussle
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The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe.
Author:
Kim Novak
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We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know.
Author:
Charlie Norwood
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Today it's not culture; it's box office.
Author:
Alex North
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I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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I was considering running for political office.
Author:
Michael Newdow
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No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.
Author:
Michael Newdow
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Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.
Author:
Michael Nesmith
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Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
Author:
Enid Nemy
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Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.
Author:
Pola Negri
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The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.
Author:
David Neeleman
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A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.
Author:
Grace Napolitano
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I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.
Author:
Robert Mueller
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What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
Author:
Estelle Morris
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I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
Author:
Dylan Moran
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But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.
Author:
Roy Moore
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Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.
Author:
Roy Moore
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You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
Author:
Joe Moore
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In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.
Author:
Walter Mondale
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
Author:
Jessica Mitford
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I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
Author:
George Mitchell
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From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
Author:
Laura Miller
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Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.
Author:
Dennis Miller
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
Author:
Ed Miliband
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I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them.
Author:
Jason Mewes
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No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
Author:
H. Mencken
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The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
Author:
Michael Medved
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Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.
Author:
James McGreevey
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I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.
Author:
James McGreevey
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It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings.
Author:
George McCutcheon
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I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy.
Author:
Norma McCorvey
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I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.
Author:
Paul Mazursky
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All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Author:
Jonathan Mayhew
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Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
Author:
Marlee Matlin
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What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
Author:
Harriet Martineau
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He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Author:
Jose Marti
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I can record auditions from my office in my home.
Author:
Jason Marsden
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I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
Author:
Mako
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.
Author:
Margaret Mahy
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We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
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John Mahoney
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Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
Author:
Agnes Macphail
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It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
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Shirley MacLaine
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If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
Author:
George Lucas
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Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
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Louis Louis XIV
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I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
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Kenneth Livingstone
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I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.
Author:
Kenneth Livingstone
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It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.
Author:
Ron Livingston
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
Author:
James Levine
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We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
Author:
Shane Leslie
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Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
Author:
Jay Leno
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We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.
Author:
James Laughlin
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I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.
Author:
Harold Larwood
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For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.
Author:
Rick Larsen
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This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.
Author:
Steve Largent
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I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.
Author:
Franklin Lane
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I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.
Author:
Jhumpa Lahiri
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What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine.
Author:
James Lafferty
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It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.
Author:
Alan Ladd
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Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
Author:
Neil LaBute
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Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.
Author:
Sylvia Kristel
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One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it.
Author:
Carson Kressley
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Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.
Author:
Rem Koolhaas
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The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
Author:
Rem Koolhaas
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I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.
Author:
Vaclav Klaus
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.
Author:
Peter King
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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Author:
John Kennedy
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It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
Author:
Edward Kennedy
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Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.
Author:
George Kaufman
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Author:
Garry Kasparov
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I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
Author:
Carl Karcher
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A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
Author:
Dean Kamen
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To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.
Author:
Elena Kagan
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I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.
Author:
William Joyce
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I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.
Author:
William Joyce
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In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me.
Author:
Davy Jones
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.
Author:
Eddie Johnson
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My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
Author:
Derek Jeter
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
Author:
Jim Jeffords
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.
Author:
Thomas Jarvis
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One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
Author:
Allison Janney
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As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.
Author:
LeBron James
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A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
Author:
Helmut Jahn
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I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.
Author:
Helmut Jahn
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President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.
Author:
Marc Jacobs
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I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do.
Author:
Alphonso Jackson
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As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
Author:
Molly Ivins
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I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
Author:
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
Author:
Jay Inslee
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Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.
Author:
Gwen Ifill
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I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.
Author:
Miguel Icaza
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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
Author:
Lee Iacocca
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
Author:
Anne Hutchinson
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I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.
Author:
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.
Author:
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.
Author:
Holly Hunter
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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Author:
David Hume
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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Author:
Herbert Hoover
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The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.
Author:
John Hooker
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
Author:
Larry Holmes
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They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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The office of presbyters is a permanent one.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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That the apostolic office is temporary, is a plain historical fact.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
Author:
James Hillman
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Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
Author:
Arthur Hiller
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
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Vote Smart has sent out thirty thousand questionnaires to every candidate running for office.
Author:
Betty Hill
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I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.
Author:
Betty Hill
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Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
Author:
Andy Hertzfeld
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Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
Author:
Gustav Heinemann
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I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.
Author:
Steven Hatfill
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Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
Author:
Steve Harvey
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Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.
Author:
Mary Hart
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Author:
Gary Hart
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The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running.
Author:
Grace Hansen
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You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.
Author:
Alex Halen
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And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.
Author:
Chris Hadfield
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
Author:
Gary Gygax
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Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.
Author:
Luis Guzman
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I have an office in my house and one about five minutes from my house. I worked solely out of my house for many years, but find, with children, that I have to be in a different ZIP code to think.
Author:
Cathy Guisewite
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Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.
Author:
Robert Grosseteste
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The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
Author:
Richard Grimes
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Author:
Ulysses Grant
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Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
Author:
Hugh Grant
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Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.
Author:
Virgil Goode
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I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.
Author:
Alberto Gonzales
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In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.
Author:
Linda Godwin
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Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
Author:
Arthur Godfrey
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All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
Author:
Ruth Ginsburg
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In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.
Author:
Terry Gilliam
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
Author:
Ed Gillespie
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During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
Author:
Philip Gibbs
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A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.
Author:
Philip Gibbs
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Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work.
Author:
Ben Gazzara
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My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
Author:
Jim Garrison
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All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.
Author:
Jim Garrison
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If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.
Author:
Christopher Gadsden
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Author:
Robert Frost
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A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.
Author:
John Frankenheimer
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You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.
Author:
Jeff Foxworthy
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Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.
Author:
Vito Fossella
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I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
Author:
Harrison Ford
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A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.
Author:
Mark Foley
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By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
Author:
Howard Fineman
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If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
Author:
Russ Feingold
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I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.
Author:
Michael Fassbender
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I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.
Author:
Georgie Fame
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Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
Author:
Bob Etheridge
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.
Author:
John Elway
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You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.
Author:
Julie Eisenhower
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower