#mount

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#amounted #came #cut #facing #five

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio. ↗

— Ursula Andress

#got #i #into #make #me

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#certainly #experience #had #huge #i

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#back #bring #god #larger #lead

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

#amount #attains #determines #distinction #doing

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom. ↗

— Tim Allen

#best #dad #example #friends #friendship

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.' ↗

— Adam Ant

#boredom #cause #different #each #good

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#became #came #chain #chicago #family

I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#amount #better #directed #episode #fair

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ↗

— John Barrymore

#causes #least #most #sex #takes