#lion

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#elected #elected officials #fought #island #life

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. ↗

— Mark Davis

#another #bailey #barbara #barbara boxer #being

Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#bottles #calories #cans #carbohydrates #coke

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character. ↗

— Viola Davis

#character #circumstances #facts #first #first of all

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. ↗

— Conrad Black

#could #get #i #made #million

When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma. ↗

— Jack Black

#beatles #commands #creative #fast #kids

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' ↗

— Lewis Black

#cable #company #dad #dollars #father

This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#created #economy #expecting #first #growth

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#buildings #consumption #costs #efficiency #efficient

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam. ↗

— Nguyen Cao Ky

#half #into #million #more #poured