#ant

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#books #breed #contempt #enforce #i

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#good #good things #got #necessary #necessary evil

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#i #know #like #me #money

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#business #family #family background #heavily #matters

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#i #immediate #incredibly #know #like

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#interested #me #much #story #tell

I was called Kool Dj Kurt Walker... but they wanted tocall me Kurtis Blow. ↗

— Kurtis Blow

#called #dj #i #kool #kurt

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#any #borrowing #cuts #democrats #economists

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#attribution #believe #control #copyright #creator

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#around #because #competitively #disadvantage #doing