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SINEAD O'CONNOR If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would e... LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. Most of the other top sailing countries started pumping millions and millions of dollars into their ... DEAN BRENNER When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and no... BOB PARSONS When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally di... KEYSHAWN JOHNSON It's certainly millions and millions of dollars. DAVID HUDDLESTON I sure liked the idea of someone giving me millions of dollars, ... In 1992 they took control of the... JACK WELCH I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to f... CARNIE WILSON I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over... LINDA EVANGELISTA I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better. NANDAN NILEKANI The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to... JOHN H. REAGAN To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and u... JIM GIBBONS I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people. PAT BOONE It was a lot of work. Now I see why movies cost millions of dollars to make, SHIRLEY MACLAINE The American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalization. JACK MA That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well... JAMIE DIMON I really felt like (Hester) should come back. He doesn't have a starting position. He's giving up mi... DON SOLDINGER You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something... NICK WOODMAN I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care tod... DAVID AXELROD Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law. JOE MANCHIN When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an... MISSY ELLIOTT I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records. KATY PERRY I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case. BUZZ OSBORNE Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. M... GARY BAUER I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United ... CHARLIE HADEN What I've learned is that the audience is constantly rotating. Just because it feels like I'... SUZE ORMAN I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are n... BO BICE Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn&... DREW BARRYMORE We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almos... EVERETT DIRKSEN We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions ... MICHAEL BAY There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, n... RICHARD PRYOR I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that pers... NATASHA LITTLE I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know... VANCE HAVNER In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Smith v. Maryland that a few days' worth of phone record... RAND PAUL When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dol... TOBY KEITH It's millions and millions of dollars. We know there's a lot of interest, it's just a matter of will... BOB SCHULZ Over 150 tribal nations have passed resolutions demanding that I be granted clemency. And of course ... LEONARD PELTIER I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing compan... SOLOMON BURKE take away millions of dollars from the Coast when the Coast needs that money most. ERIC CLARK I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. ... BAHMAN GHOBADI brings in millions of dollars a year. BOB MANKOFF If it falls into the building, we're looking at millions of dollars worth of damage. GARY HEWSON I think it will turn out to be a very astute investment by Sirius. The value of what (Sirius has) al... CRAIG MOFFETT I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn'... CAROLINA HERRERA There are millions and millions and millions of inkjet printers in the consumer arena. RON GLAZ Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personalit... SOFIA VERGARA the tens of millions of dollars. BRUCE BABBITT The folks making the most money online are Cisco and Dell, which sell millions of dollars worth of e... GEOFFREY SMITH It was mandatory in college that we had to wear a suit. I think it's kind of funny ? now we get the ... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bow... PETER DIAMANDIS I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but ... JOSH DUHAMEL Anthony was truly a gift to all of us and to millions and millions and millions of people. He was pr... EDWARD JAMES OLMOS I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions o... CHARLES VAN DOREN Style is a big part of my life. I used to work in retail before I was an artist; a lot of people did... BJ THE CHICAGO KID The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem lik... HALEY JOEL OSMENT I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have ... JACK MA When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket. UWE BOLL Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running w... SUSAN LUCCI Even my record company, who earned millions of dollars with me, abandoned me. They took my records o... GLORIA TREVI If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be... ALAN PATON The White House is aware of the electoral importance of preachers like Robertson who command million... RIORDAN ROETT Our government invests millions in equipment and manpower, and they are losing these millions of dol... FREDDY MELLA It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year. WALTER CRONKITE The town has suffered great loss in terms of public infrastructure, residential houses as well as bu... KATRINA HANSE In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with th... FOSTER FRIESS Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have... OLGA KORBUT I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting o... CHADWICK BOSEMAN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach mil... RITA ORA Managers were paid huge sums of money - running into millions of dollars - and have failed to pruden... NEIL ANDERSON I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company. JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future ... ALBERT MALTZ For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Ric... LAMAR ODOM In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions o... CHELLIE PINGREE As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud... NICK LAMPSON Maybe. But running backs in the NFL make millions of dollars. AARON WIES It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was ... TRACEY EMIN I represent thousands of lobbyists in my district [in the Virginia suburbs of Washington] so I am no... JAMES MORAN One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defen... MARC ANDREESSEN Millions don't rally to the banner of Uncertainty. GEORGE PACKER James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second. DANNY MASTERSON I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi... BARBARA KRUGER It was classless. I don't deserve to be treated like that after making them millions of dollars. ED SCHULTZ When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ... SOPHIE KINSELLA If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have ... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and... MICHAEL JORDAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't lig... EVE ARNOLD I'm very pro vaccine. I get all six of my kids vaccinated. I believe vaccines save millions of l... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT
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"Either the legion raises someone on a shield after ... RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked. "Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea... RICK RIORDAN Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu... RICK RIORDAN They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large... RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder. RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?" "Yeah," Percy said. "He sla... RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you." Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you? RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g... RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his bac... RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ... RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "W... RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is... RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid. RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down." "But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Je... RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed! RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio... RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th... RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning bolts t... RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w... RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo." Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be... RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?” The satyrs fell over... RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ... RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu... RICK RIORDAN