#amount

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV. ↗

— Bill Gates

#bit #cut #games #i #i think

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. ↗

— Eric Lindros

#counts #into #necessarily #practice #put

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#becoming #good #good thing #hole #independent

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#big #client #convince #either #firms

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#before #complex #does #each #ever

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#character #earned #exerted #hardly #his

Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it. ↗

— Kelly McGillis

#differential #height #hide #i #paramount

The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#amount #because #consider #enormous #hours

Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#answer #appearance #attention #certain #distraction