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Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.' ↗

— John Stamos

#been #called #charlie #chocolate #factory

My father did everything for me. He was awesome. ↗

— Jenson Button

#did #everything #father #me

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#civic #countries #dozens #nationalism #other

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#along #came #cell #cell phones #compression

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#america #debt #deployments #gratitude #immense

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot. ↗

— Scott Caan

#fun #long #long shot #love #me

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. ↗

— Vince Cable

#associations #bank #cannot #continental #due

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. ↗

— Herb Caen

#go #immortality #only #tends #the only thing

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#children #decision #desires #encourage #give