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What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.

I haven't really been auditioning. For me is about finding quality work versus finding work. I get a considerable amount of offers everyday.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

How competitive am I? A healthy amount. I have four siblings. It was competitive just eating dinner, like, "Everyone, get what you want from the chicken." Plus competing for your parents' attention.

It's the main reason why I continue to push myself and my career to do more and more as the amount that you're able to raise for charity and to give to charity by my celebrity.

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this if they are dieting or not. I think we all would be shocked by it.

Obama's not ultimately gonna get away with totally destroying America. His damage already done is brutal and he's gonna do more and we're gonna have an incredible amount of hard work ahead of us.

If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible.

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.

I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.

You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight.

I don't do any amount of stunts.

There's an amount of love that can never - no matter what - be taken away or torn apart, no matter the situation. There are certain people who you will always, always love.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.

Warning, I may contain more than a trace amount of nut.

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.

I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.