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I like to go on really nice dates. I've made some money, but I don't spend it on anything besides my rent. But I go to nice dinners. And I like to go with a girl.

Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.

I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.

As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

You can get a slouchy woman's tunic at different price points. But if you want a great pair of trousers or a dress with delicate pleating, you're going to have to spend a little more.

We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

New Mexico is 2-to-1 Democrat. I got elected as a Republican. I think I did a great job of showing people that government doesn't have to spend money to make you happy, that government really needs to be providing a level playing field.

For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become a lawyer or doctor. Older generations didn't understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saute vegetables when that trade could be taught at home.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set to shoot because you've been working on the character: the way he walks, the way he talks, what might upset him, what might make him happy.

I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love.

I'm a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I've done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I'm the hottest thing going.

The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Medical costs are soaring because our health-care system is totally screwed up. Doctors and hospitals have every incentive to spend on unnecessary tests, drugs, and procedures.

I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don't have a lot of furniture in our house, so it's really simple. And we're trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don't want to get isolated to do that.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I'd like to spend more time with her.

One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and I wanted to spend time with my kids and be a mother.

The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Working women, moms, students, they don't have a lot of time to spend on their faces.

I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.

Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said.

The people who make these spend a lot of time,

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Unquestionably, it was also thanks to the World Cup win in 1974 that I was lucky enough to spend four years as a player in New York from 1977.

We are seeing a substantial increase in our fuel prices. It's not like it's going to cause us to close our doors, but we would sure like to have that 15 percent to spend elsewhere.

We are pretty good. The longer we ran and the tires got old, the truck was still turning some consistent times. I think we are going to race very well. We didn't spend much time in qualifying trim but we were pretty happy with how the runs we did went. I am looking forward to qualifying and then tomorrow's race.

We are going to spend as much time on the middle and late rounds as we do on the first-round guys. From our standpoint there is really not a lot of difference.

We are going to spend about $6 billion more this year than we take in, ... The only reason they can even call that a balanced budget with a straight face is, they're taking borrowed money from last year and spilling it over into this year." ()

We are a very tight family, we spend a lot of time together. With our kids, the first question that came out of their mouth was 'are we still going to have dinner together as a family?' It has been important for Anthony and I to make sure that happens. Sometimes it means grabbing a pizza here at the store, but we are still together.

There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.

We're interested in knowing, ... how much each one of you uses the Internet. How much time do you spend on it?

We're in Chicago. When you spend almost your whole career here, you know what to expect.

We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join with the county and share in the election cost.

Why spend time trying to read this guy's tea leaves?

When you turn 50, you realize that the better part of your life is past, ... Mothers usually don't get to spend five weeks with their 21-year-old son. We drove all over the place.

We're not going to spend the next ten years debating what should happen here.

There is no question that overall sales amounts are going to rival the weekend before Christmas and a lot of stores are going to do better than that. You're getting people into the stores at a time when they don't normally shop, they don't normally spend money.

There is no on-demand if there is no demand, ... If you don't have a hit, nobody is going to buy it. Nobody is going to spend $1.99 to watch something that they don't know about or don't care about.

There is no market to discipline the pricing in this industry. What you need to spend the next 18 months doing while you still have the authority is to establish the structural conditions that would let market forces be created,

While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

While I will continue to play an important role in the games area, I will spend more time thinking about our broader challenges and opportunities across the division.

We've always wanted to improve our bullpen, but until this year we weren't able to get the pieces we wanted. It's been frustrating. . . . It's not easy to spend the bulk of the game battling for a lead and then seeing it get away. . . . Now we have some depth. We have some quality arms.

We've always tried to take a look around the corner. If we are going to spend this money, is there any possibility to do something different or to better improve the infrastructure tomorrow, even if we can't leverage it today?

When I talk to kids about this place, I spend all my time talking about what a great place this is, not all that other stuff, ... There are enough positive things to talk about with this program and this community.

We're getting to a point now where when we get to our scouting team, it's a full-speed picture. We might not spend a lot of time preparing specifically for an opponent, but the time we do spend has been of good quality.

We're going to spend whatever it takes to help the Guidant management team in cardiac rhythm management with this recovery. It is going to take a little longer. But the long-term perspective here has not changed.

We're going to spend the next 30 days at least focused on relief restoration rather than business as usual.

We're going to spend more on player salaries this year than in any of the five years of the football team.

We're going to spend and invest in this campaign.

We're going to spend about $60,000 for a home that will be here for generations.

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

What this does is try to narrow it down so you spend less time with people who are totally out of the question. We're just upping your chances.

When we go home we can spend a bit of quality time together but from the point of view of the skeleton, we're professional about what we do. Sometimes we might not speak for a whole day, even though we're both at the track, because we are so into what we are doing.

When we get 2,000 pounds (of food), we spend $320. When you think about a box of cereal that could sell on the shelf for three dollars, we get it for 16 cents.

We can develop all the schedules we want, but until the funding is there for planned replacement, our time is wasted. You have to spend money to save money.

We felt it was better to identify places ... where we knew we were going to have to spend it anyway. We know we're going to have to spend the money on the avian flu,

We both feel unhealthy. We spend a lot of time really not doing much for ourselves... so our reward is food.

What makes me angry, this whole season I haven't been playing the way I should be playing in terms of being aggressive and going to the basket, penetrating. My shot, everything is going in-and-out. I'm just going through something right now. I spend day-in and day-out working on my shot. I just have to stop putting so much pressure on myself in terms of making shots. Eventually, hopefully, they'll start falling.

What's striking is that we are clearly a world leader in how much we spend on health care. We should be expecting to be the best. Clearly, we should be doing better.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I beli

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

We're going to have to have some depth come in and spend the week really working on those back-up guys and get them ready to go,

Very few people spend their whole career - eight, nine years - on one team. It has to be the right situation, right setting, right spot. But I think this is a good place to be. It's really nice here. The team's accepted me, the coach accepted me and everybody expects me to be accountable for my job. I like it.

Usually, children spend more time in the garden than anybody else. It is where they learn about the world, because they can be in it unsupervised, yet protected. Some gardeners will remember from their own earliest recollections that no one sees the garden as vividly, or cares about it as passionately, as the child who grows up in it.

Yes, Barometer was written in Key West and I did spend many hours at the library there. Every song on that album has a literary connection.

Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds of irrationalities and stupid actions. I have some notion, and then I drop it because something else comes along. I'm forever darting from one side of the room to the other.

Work plays a significant role in the lives of working families, not only in the amount of time they spend at work but also with their attitudes toward work and how these attitudes and expectations spill over to the home, Overworking is very pervasive, but parents don't have the mechanisms to put the brakes on.

With the latest increase, New Jersey families will spend another $543 to send their children to Rutgers this year. That's an unexpected expense that will put a strain on most families' budgets. We're asking our colleagues in the state Legislature to join us in supporting this bill's passage so that this does not happen again next year. We have a historic commitment to make higher education available to our students.

We're going to do a real investigation here, spend some substantial, significant time with him getting to the bottom of what happened and how he escaped. And then we'll release details as we have them. Right now, let's just make sure he's in good physical shape, which he appears to be, and give him an opportunity to reconnect with his loved ones.

We're extremely excited that someone is going to spend money to see what can be done here.

We're better than we were yesterday, and hopefully we're getting better every day. We're getting used to each other the more time we spend on ice.

We're a watchdog group that has become the eyes and ears of where the tax money is going in Walton County. We spend a lot of time, through volunteer efforts, to analyze budgets, analyze expenditures and try to look at different government programs to see if there's an actual justification of benefit back to the taxpayer.

Three years into a phase, we begin to gather information to determine if there continues to be a need for the program and what work to include in the next phase. At the end of any five-year program, it could be that the committee says, We don't feel there are other thoroughfares we think we should spend money on and make that recommendation,' or the voters could decide that.

We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.

Version 4 has a brand new look, designed to excite and engage our online community of students. In addition, we have simplified our administrative tools so teachers can spend more time helping students to connect and collaborate on Think.com.

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

Ultimately, for the economic recovery to sustain itself, we have to see the labor market improve. As the tax-cut benefits fade, consumers will look for more fundamental reasons to spend money, and there will have to be some job growth.

With time on our side a couple of months in advance of the holidays we have the opportunity to step back and ask, 'What's a reasonable amount of money I can spend on holiday festivities, gifts and donations?'

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

Writing a book is a long and difficult process for me. I'm a slow writer, so I spend the year with Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in my head. I was thinking about this the other day. I wrote the first book in 1987. Literally every day since that time, Elvis and Joe have been in my head. They're always there. I started these guys because I like them.

We're still missing a lot of insurance information to get what we need to be able to fill a prescription. We can spend a long time waiting on the phone.

We're seeing a great shift in how consumers spend money, and our business models need to be flexible. It used to be said that content was king, but the consumer is king.

We're saying 'no, Mr. President,' ... No means no, we're not going to spend a dime out of Social Security and we're not going to raise taxes, but we are going to balance the budget.

We're not having to spend any money to do this, and I'm proud of that.

We've tried to structure it so people spend the night, ... I heard that every room in Cache Valley is booked ... We've blacked out the entire valley for tonight.

We want to raise all we can and then take the next two years to spend all of it, ... Hopefully then we'll be out of business and there'll be no more hurricanes.

Whenever we have cap room, it is spent in these ways, in this priority. First, we spend it on anybody who can help this year's team in any way.

We were bailing out water until 1 a.m. and pumping out the basement. I can't figure out why everyone else pays city taxes but mine are four or five times higher because I have to spend $4,000 every four years to fix my house. I thought taxes fixed problems like these.

We want to think of ways to promote the parks and bring in more visitors to see the area and spend time here. We need a plan, a strategy.

We want to spend the money on people who need it the most.

We want to spend as much of the endowment as possible, subject to two constraints ? preserving purchasing power into perpetuity and assuring that the spending stream is relatively stable. Your great-grandchildren need to get the same economic benefit that you're getting now.

We are all reaching new grounds. I don't want to spend a penny of taxpayer dollars that is unreimbused to the city of Houston. But I see needs out there when I get out and about in the community,