#amount

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#bent #britain #corporation #effectively #influence

When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, 'This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records.' ↗

— Scott Weiland

#amount #expectations #got #hit #i

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. ↗

— David Byrne

#includes #me #modest #most #musicians

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make. ↗

— Drew Carey

#bad #feel #filled #guilt #hollywood

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ↗

— George Carlin

#death #long #long period #over #period

And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#amount #cities #did #front #greater

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#assistance #been #eligible #find #full

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#her #much #said #she #thought

I'm now wearing suits on stage, so I've kinda stepped up my game as far as image. Which I have to admit is kind of a pain the butt, but it's fun. It gives you a certain amount of confidence to walk on stage and look nice, but I can't say that I'm totally buying into the whole image factor. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#amount #as far as #buying #certain #confidence

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#am #amount #cause #concerned #create