Million Quotes - page 14

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. (Leo Baekeland)
The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra. View quote
Leslie Caron
The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe. View quote
Linda Chavez
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time. View quote
Louis J. Freeh
According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen. View quote
Luis Gutierrez
I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position. View quote
Lauren Alaina
There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation. View quote
Laurent Fabius
At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people. View quote
Laurie Garrett
I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes. View quote
Mark Mothersbaugh
We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach. View quote
Margaret Spellings
Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets. (Maria Bartiromo)
When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million. View quote
Martin Villeneuve
The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000. View quote
Marty Meehan
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS. View quote
Marvin Olasky
I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized. View quote
Matt Drudge
I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand. View quote
Matthew Vaughn
As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control. View quote
Michael P. Anderson
Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future. View quote
Mordechai Vanunu
Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me. View quote
Moustapha Akkad
I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town. (Norm Dicks)
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough. View quote
Norman Granz
When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're climbing into the meat grinder. And what you're coming out with on the other side is a generic, heavily studio-controlled pile of garbage that ends up on the side of Burger King wrappers. View quote
Neill Blomkamp
With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity. View quote
Nick Lampson
I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one. View quote
Oscar Peterson