#amount

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#foster #him #home #keep #kid

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. ↗

— Charles Vest

#amount #award #best #cannot #changes

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#act #amount #daily #daily lives #death

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#bad #being #east #fed #goes

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed. ↗

— Chris Ware

#amount #art #art forms #built #comes

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish. ↗

— Gene Ween

#ask #came #certain #could #count

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?' ↗

— Kanye West

#amount #apply #art #art world #board

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#fans #homeowners #i #incredible #made

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#discipline #fields #hard #intense #living

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#aspire #consider #fields #most #our