Billion Quotes
961 Billion quotes by 694 unique authors
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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
— Sylvia Earle
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Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.
— Lupe Fiasco
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When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's…
— Harvey Fierstein
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I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal…
— Carly Fiorina
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Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
— Luke Ford
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Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
— Kirk Hammett
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It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
— Dennis Hastert
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In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an…
— Doc Hastings
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The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
— Jane D. Hull
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It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
— Naveen Jain
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I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about…
— Naveen Jain
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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
— Quincy Jones
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If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB…
— Mindy Kaling
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Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
— Ric Keller
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For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas…
— Mary Landrieu
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Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
— Dalai Lama
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For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and…
— Robert Lanza
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The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.
— Bjorn Lomborg
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A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no…
— James Lovelock
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People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well…
— John Malkovich
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It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.
— Michael Moore
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There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.
— Michael Moore
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design…
— Elon Musk
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