#tend

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#anyone #bush #bush tax cuts #cuts #economic

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#barack #barack obama #clearest #current #cut

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#comforting #course #else #escapism #human

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #ever #guitar

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#capitalism #peasants #serious #tendency #toward

Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#angry #birds #brilliant #company #different

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#business #daydream #distracted #i #i am

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#constructed #deeply #discover #displaced #facts

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#acting #definitely #i #like #lots

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#everybody #forward #healthy #i #i think