#amount

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#always #amount #answer #come #data

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies. ↗

— David Obey

#advertising #amount #buy #care #companies

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#amount #could #grandfather #had #his

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind. ↗

— William Odom

#arabs #could #federal #idea #iraq

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#angle #any #anymore #becoming #budget

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon. ↗

— Mohammed Omar

#destroy #destroyed #left #only #percent

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ↗

— George Orwell

#balance #fair #foolish #fun #get

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics. ↗

— George Osborne

#damage #done #expenses #i #importance

I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#amount #fish #goes #hardly #i

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#bushel #contributing #corn #dead #erosion