Raises Quotes
1587 Raises quotes by 1234 unique authors
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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards…
— Umberto Eco
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
— Freeman Dyson
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My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out…
— Henry Mintzberg
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Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
— John Wanamaker
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores…
— Evita Peron
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Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way…
— Mary Blakely
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Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says.…
— Jonathan Raban
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I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer…
— Diego Luna
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On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid…
— Masaharu Morimoto
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
— Ralph Neas
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The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity…
— Richard Owen
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The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence…
— Christian Lous Lange
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I didn't want to raise my child in Hollywood.
— Heath Ledger
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I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of…
— Ana Ortiz
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It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to…
— Bernadette Peters
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Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest…
— Bill Pascrell
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In Arizona we have passed laws to free our people so that they can defend themselves and their loved ones. You cannot predict where evil…
— Russell Pearce
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Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.
— Ryan Phillippe
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I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things…
— Sean Parker
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If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it.
— Charles Rangel
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President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing rates on top…
— Christina Romer
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I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have…
— Helen Reddy
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We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat…
— Phylicia Rashad
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Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
— Steven Rattner
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