#now

There's a fascinating statistic: One out of every four people in America has visited New York since 9/11. It is astounding. Now, I don't know how you count it; it's some people coming multiple times. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#astounding #coming #count #every #fascinating

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#audience #cares #character #comedian #his

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

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#card #companies #control #get #hire

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#been #box #box office #culture #even

You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#assumption #belief #capital #country #enormous

You don't make spending decisions, investment decisions, hiring decisions, or whether-you're-going-to-look-for-a-job decisions when you don't know what's going to happen. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#going #happen #hiring #investment #know

You know, if it's a three-way race, the public has more choice than if it's a two-way race, and has more choice in a two-way race than a one-way race. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#know #more #one-way #public #race

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#bill #bridges #buildings #built #buy

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#biggest #biology #budgets #century #discoveries