#lost

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#colleges #cut #cuts #education #funding

I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy - and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight! ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#because #big #big guy #guy #i

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#fix #government #haven #house #job

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#based #basic #been #build #center

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#clinton #jobs #lost #million #new

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#found #longed #lost

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since. ↗

— Mark Boal

#attacks #different #different ways #family #lost

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues. ↗

— David Geffen

#already #apathy #colleagues #friends #growing

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#away #bands #coming #folks #followed