#amount

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#achieve #acquired #along #amount #effect

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years. ↗

— Sean Parker

#bring #huge #industry #itunes #money

I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#attention #because #feel #i #i feel

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#anything #best-seller #certain #copies #damn

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up. ↗

— Colin Powell

#back #certain #giving #giving back #giving up

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#big #campaigning #cash #democratic #dinners

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#achieved #amount #been #brought #childcare

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#exact #i #i do #little #me

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#any #because #difficult #down #like

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#because #controlled #criminals #get #had