Tax increases aren't the answer. It would remove income from Americans' pockets, slow or stagnate job creation, and potentially lead to an overall economic downturn.


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I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock tha...
AMANDA BURTON
I think this is a very difficult job, especially for women - there are too few roles around. I never...
AMANDA BURTON
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
AMANDA BURTON
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of ...
AMANDA BURTON
Facing up to non-being enables us to put our life into perspective, see it in its entirety, and ther...
NEEL BURTON
In 1949, neurologist Egas Moniz (1874-1955) received a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ‘the thera...
NEEL BURTON
If two people with no symptoms in common can both receive the same diagnosis of schizophrenia, then ...
NEEL BURTON
Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be unde...
NEEL BURTON
As it stands, the diagnostic criteria for depression are so loose that two people with absolutely no...
NEEL BURTON
Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
CLIFF BURTON
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
ROBERT BURTON
I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where ...
HILARIE BURTON
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON
When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally dev...
TIM BURTON
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a chil...
TIM BURTON
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
ROBERT BURTON
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, f...
ROBERT BURTON
I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It w...
AMANDA BURTON
'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gab...
KATE BURTON
I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were t...
TIM BURTON