What's certain is that ranking powerful people is inherently self-defeating. For starters, true potentates know who they are without being told, and they have no need to announce it.
I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.
I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make the movies in the next year, or two, or three.
If some confectioners were willing
To let the shape announce the filling,
We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,
Bitten into and returned to the box.
I'm pleased to announce that my government will build the much-needed Melbourne airport rail link.
You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.
UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership
I always talk with my technical staff before I announce a squad. I have always done that; I am changing nothing.
When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.
We will announce a new offering, where you can get a CA expert on your PC live, via video, on a range of topics about a product.
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.
I mean, I would love to announce with my brother, Michael Buffer. That would just be an incredible thing to do and we'd have a blast working together.
Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.
It is amazing how quickly a true talent can announce itself. In the case of Myla Goldberg, it is not even a matter of pages, but of sentences.
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.
In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'
Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.
If Islam opposes terrorism, then Saudi Arabia should announce that no one supportive of ISIS or Al Qaeda is welcome in Mecca to make Hajj.
To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm a compulsive confessor.
I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
Our guest tonight is Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States. She's here to announce her run for president.
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
I'm not gonna ever announce that I'm going to do an album again. Waking up with that on your head almost doesn't allow you to make the best album you can.
For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.
If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.
I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'
I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.
If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them.
Every time I do something or release something or announce a new project, there's always that fear that it won't go well.
The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.
Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.
When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
I will announce my intention to totally renegotiate NAFTA, one of the worst deals America has ever made.
I remember people were horrified when I celebrated my 50th! 'Don't announce your age,' I was advised! How stupid is that.
Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
I am told that very early on in this transition process, to expect that [Donald] Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court.
I have decided, and am truly excited to announce, that I will be turning pro. I believe that, in the long run, this is the best way for me continue to develop as an athlete.
Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!
I am happy to announce that we have reached an agreement on the question of transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation.
Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
I'm all about passion, everything I do is with a passion that is the reason why I announce the way I do.
Part of my job in the octagon is making sure the fighters are lined up with the referee so one of them gets their hand raised while I announce the winner.
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.
If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
I'm glad to be able to announce that the UK now has it's very own mindless twit. || Either that or he's a damn good satirist.
I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying 20 percent of my health insurance.
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
Until you announce me as the #1 contender for the WWE Championship, I suggest you watch me make snow angels.
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