Top 1200 High Taxes Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

One thing that did happen to me, though - in high school, there was a club to help prepare people for scholarships and they wouldn't let girls take the class. But I studied for it, and that year I was the only one from the high school who got the scholarship. That was my vindication.

We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.

Despite popular belief that watermelon is made up of only water and sugar, watermelon is actually a nutrient-dense food with a high amount of vitamins such as A and C, minerals such as iron and calcium, and is high in antioxidants.

I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.

I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving 'tax cuts' to people who don't pay taxes.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate as high as some of the high-concept, big-idea, big-swing things that get the critics really excited.

The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

I believe that in order to sustain a governing majority, the Democratic Party has got to learn that it can govern without raising taxes.

If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It's by encouraging the growth of the economy.

In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings.

I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

Would higher taxes and a crumbling economy help women succeed, either personally or professionally? I don't think so.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.

The NCAA model is outdated. If Steve Serby's a great player in high school, and an agent wants to represent you and wants to advance you money as a loan based on the fact that you're gonna be a high draft choice, so be it.

Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for teenagers they actually are that high. I think you really are dealing in a world of tremendous cruelty and intensity, and YA gives truth to that.

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social unrest.

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.

I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can do aerobics in heels.

There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered almost at times existential high action, high drama surreal film that's sort of locked in his mind. And then have an opportunity to do that.

My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.

In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.

I grew up with very hands-on jobs. I was raised on a farm and taught to work hard. In this high-tech, high-speed society, somewhere along the line, we got the message that if we're not a brain surgeon or an astronaut, we really shouldn't be proud of ourselves.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

I would say that the pivotal moment in singing for me was my sophomore year in high school, 'cause I always loved music but, even going into high school, I didn't know I wanted to make this my career.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

For high school, everything is about what you wear, how you come to school, and in high school, a lot of people judge you. So fashion is something that can save you - at least, it saved me.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government