Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Kennedy

We always hope our federal bureaucracy is going to do a good job responding to the needs of Americans. The painful fact is, this is a bureaucratic process. Unfortunately, there are complaints all over the place out there about the speed with which the agency is dispensing with these claims.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Michael Ovitz

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

John Perkins

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

Thomas Horn

We were bemused, I guess, when we got the call from Hollywood. We didn't know anything about the entertainment industry or even what a casting agency was. But I thought, 'What do I have to lose?' It's not every day a great opportunity presents itself.

Tom Rachman

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

Timothy Noah

If the Pentagon truly confined itself to providing defense, then presumably we wouldn't need a whole separate government agency to provide 'Homeland Security.'

Timothy Noah

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Kathryn Lasky

In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.

Ollie Goulston

When he is out there on the court he makes everyone around him better. He is consummate point guard in that way. A lot of it is the intangibles, like calling the right sets, getting guys in the right position and creating.

Tyra Banks

When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

Bob Lee

We had a very difficult time finding many of the officers who worked on these cases to interview them or even call them up because there was no phone services.

Jennifer Woods

When I had her as a teacher all of the kids in her class ended up calling her mom. She had this way of instilling the desire to learn in her students.

Madeleine Peyroux

When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I found music that could sustain me. I found jazz and other music that I could call mine.

Dontrelle Willis

When I got the call telling me I had won, I was definitely floored and honored.

Kit Harington

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

Benh Zeitlin

Local casting is just something I love doing.

Kara Swisher

Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.

Cameron Diaz

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Tom Hougaard

The profit warning from Sun Micro is casting somewhat of a shadow over the European markets.

Archie Panjabi

I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

Chris Pratt

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.

Dave Foley

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'.

Cary Fukunaga

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.

James Bond

Now the choice has finally been made, you've put the story on the front page and produced the sort of collection of special reports that usually accompanies a major news event, not the announcement of the casting of one tired old film role.

Dick Cavett

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Ma Huateng

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

Robert Redford

The focus of entertainment is taking away from what the public needs as news. I think investigative journalism will always be important and always find its way, be it on the Internet or wherever.

Eloise Mumford

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

Candace Cameron Bure

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

Louise Nurding

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

Jane Austen

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Carroll O'Connor

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Palitha Kohona

There is a limit to entertaining excuses. The package of excuses may have now run out.

David Brainerd

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Alain de Botton

There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

Al Davis

Time never stops for the great ones

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Dennis Miller

The American auto industry is blowing up like a 1976 Ford Pinto.

Mark Cooper

Losing competitors in this highly-concentrated industry is disastrous.

Gustav Humbert

Last year was a record year for the whole industry and for Airbus in particular.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

Kirsten Dunst

There are a lot of charismatic people in this industry ... and I can understand why people on location get together.

Sarah Snook

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Tony Pierce

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Michael Callahan

No one industry can tackle this (dictates of a country's government) on its own.

David Rockwell

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

David Rockefeller

This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.

David Heyman

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

David Heyman

I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.

David Icke

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

David Brainerd

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Bengie Molina

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

Benazir Bhutto

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Jim Crews

They switch some, they play a little zone, they play man. They look different all the time. That presents problems.