The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.
There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.
I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.
You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.
The teachers told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.
The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
There's a tremendous amount of rural areas where the constituencies tell me on a regular basis that they are underserved by the availability of broadband.
Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.
If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.
We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?
I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.
The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
We generate a ludicrous amount of trades in $1 to $5 stocks. Because we're free, we're the only place where you can day trade stuff like that.
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.
Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough.
I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
I have a very active social life. It may look glamorous, and it is, but it also takes an enormous amount of time.
It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.
I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.
I believe that the power which the spleen possesses of regulating its amount of blood depends entirely upon mechanical properties.
There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.
The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.
Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.
Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.
I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
There's no equal amount of training or conditioning individually you can do to simulate a 5-on-5 basketball game. It's such a different type of staying in shape.
A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.
Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.
If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.
Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.
I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life.
I've enjoyed a great friendship and relationship and have a tremendous amount of affinity for both the Clintons... and I'd like to keep it that way.
The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
'Modern Family' is unique in that it's telling the story of three different families, which is a huge amount of characters to service.
I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.
You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.
Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.
In any walk of life, if you think you are worth a certain amount, why settle for less? I am not that person.
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.
Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.
Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.
But I'm constantly surprised by the amount of interest in how I look. It's flattering, but a little weird - at the end of the day, I'm a footballer.
I have a picture of Texas Motor Speedway with highlighted areas of the racetrack where there are no SAFER barriers - and it's an overwhelming amount of spots.
Don't forget, I'm a dragon, I can fly, in the shortest amount of time, I'll bring all my members with me and we'll come to your side.
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
When I was crowned the college queen, I got a lot of modeling offers and I did a fair amount of work in Delhi.
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