Existing Quotes
728 quotes by 619 authors
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You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
— Norm Coleman
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits,…
— Vince Cable
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If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and…
— Dick Durbin
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Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of…
— John Nelson Darby
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive…
— Barry Eichengreen
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Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to…
— Paul Feyerabend
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Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is…
— George Berkeley
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Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
— Dario Fo
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Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles,…
— Wilson Greatbatch
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I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I…
— Charlie Hunter
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our…
— J D Hayworth
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Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing…
— Richard Hell
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I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.
— Squarepusher
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in…
— John Hodgman
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And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun…
— Donna Tartt
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I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll…
— Dave Gibbons
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Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when I originally composed…
— Jean Michel Jarre
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