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Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.
I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!
The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.
A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.
No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.
Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.
I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.
I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.
There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.
In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.
I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
Living your purpose will require a HUGE amount of faith, courage, tenacity and perseverance.
A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.
I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.
I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.
The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won.
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.
To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes who possess this drive are the ones I am attracted to.
You now have the least amount of time you've ever had, to do everything you've ever wanted to do. Enjoy your life. You only get one
An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.
Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.
Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.
I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women.
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.
No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.