#amount

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up. ↗

— Denis Norden

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We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships. ↗

— Gale Norton

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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

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. ↗

— Nate Silver

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I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#enough #even #few #fewer #get

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

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My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money. ↗

— James Green Somerville

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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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