#lion

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. ↗

— Max Delbruck

#any #billion #carries #cell #experience

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#been #digested #i #influenced #lambs

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#any #backgrounds #because #big #big movie

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#care #course #good #good health #having

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#hundred #important #last #million #more

We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to. ↗

— Andrew Natsios

#spend #wanted

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#brain #film #i #million #spend

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions. ↗

— Keith Richards

#going #guitar #maybe #millions #organisation

If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#carbon #cent #committed #cost #country

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#billion #cost #estimated #kyoto #kyoto treaty