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Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.

We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old.

The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming larger and larger.

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.

The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.

To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese book launch parties are a waste.

I have exercises that lead participants to discover for themselves that their deepest fulfillment comes when what they're doing is of benefit to larger society in some way. This really knocks some for a loop - especially those schooled in the 'take no prisoners' approach.

I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't know if I want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am.

If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets, too.

Despite the fact that he has run the most incompetent administration in history, President Obama remains a solid bet for re-election in 2012. Obama's frontrunner status springs from two crucial facts: first, by overexposing himself in the public eye, he has made himself larger than life; second, the Republican field is pathetically weak.

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.

The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

Following Michael Brown's death, I went to Ferguson and met with his parents. I stood with them as they tried to hold their heads high and deal with both their immense loss and the larger issues of police-community relations.

I love the way my tattoos look. I especially love Japanese-style tattoos and being completely sleeved by them, so it's not just these little individual and unrelated pieces, but everything's working together to create a larger design.

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.

Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.

Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.

Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.

Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.

In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.

We usually watch the traffic as it grows on the roadway. When you are tripping 14,000 cars a day you are probably at a level of service that requires a larger road.

We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.

We believe that the power and efficiency of the MT30 gas turbine propulsion system is ideally suited to larger LNG carriers travelling on longer journeys, ... The process has gone extremely smoothly thanks to Lloyd's Register Asia's input.

We are at a disadvantage to the larger high schools. At times, I feel like we really haven't been completely prepared for college.

Where they occurred, the light rains wetted fine-textured fuels such as grasses and weeds and thus temporarily lowered the risk of accidental starts from sparks. Larger fuels (limbs and logs three inches and above in size) were impacted very little.

There is no question that the effectiveness of the bombing is vastly improved as you have people on the ground in communication with the aircraft overhead, ... We now have some larger number of teams of people on the ground ... and the effectiveness of bombing is improving every day.

We're going to need a larger KFOR, and we want it deployed to Macedonia as quickly as possible. Should there be a peace agreement quickly, as we hope, we need a force that's ready to go in and help the refugees get back as the Serb forces pull out.

When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. Basketball is a home-and-road sport and, traditionally, the big schools have always played at home. Now when the smaller schools get them on a neutral court, the gap is not what the public perceives it to be.

We found that consumer interest in science and science-related consumer products is both larger and more complex than many people previously thought.

We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that we couldn't beat them at their game.

We can debate what percentage of the profits should be plowed back into the company and what percentage belongs to the shareholders. Not being a shareholder, I'd prefer to see them err in the direction of spending a larger portion on refineries and new (oil and gas) fields and infrastructure.

We can continue providing these services on a much larger scale with a well-rounded, seasoned management team, and grow together into the next decade.

What little data I've seen suggests that only about 25 percent of businesses have taken deliberate, serious action. And certainly the larger corporations would be the ones that would begin the process. Let's face it, a small company probably would not have the capability of taking very dramatic action.

Very few people have seen the team perform. Now a larger audience can see them if they have public access television.

Very few of them are not recommended for container growing. But you have to take care of them as they get older. You have to put them in larger containers or they get root bound.

With all the maps on one DVD, it's a very simple process which takes seconds rather than fiddling about with multiple CD-ROMs which hold less data. And, while we provide a 256MB card out of the box, if you install a larger 1 GB memory card for example, you could have maps for four or five countries on your phone.

We're getting higher and higher oil prices each day and you'll continue to see a larger drag on the economy through the summer months.

We're getting a critical mass of small companies in the area that focus on data mining, ... We have larger firms--SPSS, ACNielsen, IRI--that have been in data mining for decades.

We're not asking to get him removed. It's not about him. The article is a symptom of a larger issue.

Yes, but he's back again, ... As a company grows larger and larger it will have to bring in different types of managers.

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

With the move toward more open source, involving larger groups of developers and outsourcing, collaboration has become more difficult. We can now offer virtual collaboration, enabling each developer to share what others are doing and to work on a project together in real-time, regardless of geography.

With utility bills being up, a lot of people are finding their money is gone after they pay the bills. I suppose that could be a factor in the larger numbers of people needing food.

We know Windows Live is becoming increasingly more important in the services division, but this seems to indicate that it is taking on a new and even larger role.

VCA runs freestanding, larger facilities that are probably running a higher level of health care.

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Workers in larger companies don't worry about being educated, they just assume that IT handles everything. Big company employees just don't see security as their responsibility.

We're seeing larger growths on public lands because there are more people who are growing it diligently,

We're seeing better earnings news in corporate America. That's what the market is celebrating, ... We made major collateral damage to stocks in the last six weeks and over a larger 2-1/2-year period. What's happening now is that the market is bottoming out and is building a higher support base in the process.

We're seeing a lot of larger companies identifying Pasco as a place they want to be. We've never had those before. And I don't think it's going to stop.

We're seeing a lot of interest coming to us and with the facility we're in now, we're limited to growth because of these larger contracts. So we want to be able to make sure we can keep the local governments happy and the large contracts.

We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.

We want fish that are into it. Older, larger fish aren't as active.

We are also looking for a person who can train and director our volunteers in this fundraising effort, particularly in identifying larger donors.

We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

We deserve to have a significantly larger share of the market than we already have. The only thing that's keeping us from achieving those numbers are the illegal, monopolistic actions of our competitor.

There is a small group, maybe two or three, big-time receivers, and then there is a larger group of receivers a lot like Greg right behind them. With that second group, it all comes down to what a team is looking for in a player as to who they pick, so it is hard to say how high or low any of them will go.

There are plenty of people in California government who are running agencies that are larger and more complex than the University of California who are not getting ridiculously astronomical salaries.

There are fewer service providers and they are bigger and more powerful. It stands to reason that they want to buy from larger diversified companies. They'd rather not have to train technicians on products from five or six different vendors.

We've been involved in starting a web site called 'Are You Listening?' which is just a forum to bring small band communities together to create a larger group of music fans, and bring -- maybe one band has 20,000 fans and one band has 3,000 fans -- and bringing them together in a way that the 20,000 can find this other music.

We're actually starting people in groups of about 300. Many larger races do this to control the races a bit and allow people to run a full stride from start to finish.

We hope to continue property acquisition in this area so we can keep building a small number of homes in between the larger projects.

Yes, it's true that earmarks are only 1 percent of all federal spending, but earmarks have a cultural effect on Congress that is much larger than their cost. It fuses Congress together with lobbyists and creates a culture of government spending as a means to re-election, which bleeds into other areas.

Yes, it is tiny. Can we survive injuries like the larger market teams? No, we can't. But if you're a competitive person, you have to believe you can win to do this job.

We've seen dip buying and think that's a precursor to larger commitment into supply.

The problem with making larger movies, five or six months, is that whose got the energy to keep themselves in that place for so long?

There is a long queue of companies waiting to undergo the same certification process. Then, they can proceed to 'wave 2', covering security and quality-of-service, and when they too are certified, we can expect to see larger numbers of products actually reaching the market.

When I explained the premise of the book -- that it wasn't going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a serious work where I use his life in baseball to tell a larger story ... he said he didn't have any interest in taking part,

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

The Producer Price Index for April, released today, showed a considerably larger decline than had been expected, reaffirming market concerns about the state of the economy. However, the Consumer Price Index for April that will come out tomorrow will give us a much more comprehensive picture of what is actually happening.

We have a responsibility to educate and train students, but we also have a responsibility within the larger community, ... Are we doing a play because designers need to know how a corset works, or because we have an urgent need to put ideas before an audience?

We have a pot of money that is going to have to be spread over a larger population at a time when prices are soaring,

We are targeting larger vehicles initially in our hybrid strategy because that's where we can get the greatest impact, focusing on vehicles that consume the largest amount of fuel.

We're ground zero at the debate in this country over off-reservation gaming and reservation gaming. We're at the core of a much larger battle.

The pro volleyball tour has really helped to expand the sport beyond California to the larger cities and into the suburbs.