Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are still actively building the Green Street Arts Center, its outreach, its programs. We expected this would take time. We're in it for the long haul.

Mallory Ortberg

The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

Elliott Abrams

The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint review of Jordan's needs and then act together to meet them.

Shinzo Abe

The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.

I've been preparing to be a drum major since I was a freshman. I always wanted to be more actively involved with the music and success of the band.

Donald Tsang

I understand that the matter is being actively looked into and the case will be referred to the prosecution department before January 6.

What's great is to see the Gunderson folk made it through the downturn and made it to the other side and that they are thriving and growing. They are actively recruiting here locally.

Joe Williams

We will not be actively involved on a day-to-day basis. We'll be involved in consulting and whatever Bob needs us for.

We will not actively pursue a US acquisition, and that is a significant change from where we were before.

We will work actively to preserve that money in the budget.

We try to differ in our approach to the issue. Instead of the 'I talk, you listen' scenario, we introduce international practices that allow both young participants and their trainers to be actively engaged in activities, such as role-plays, games, dramas and discussions.

We believe that all kids and families are different and it's up to each family to determine what is right for them. But we do believe that parents should be actively involved in their kids' media lives.

We are seeing things like the Chinese and Brazilian governments actively backing Linux as their key operating system environment. We will work to provide the right servers, tools, expertise, and training to get our business partners on line and moving ahead with new products, based in this case on Red Hat Linux.

Bill Shorten

If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.

With all the talk of telecommuting, ... it's not a hugely widespread practice, even among techies. A survey like this one about telecommuting would naturally draw a high percentage of telecommuters. But we found only 48 percent of respondents saying that they actively telecommute.

We expect over 9 million consumers to view the Heineken ads while visiting our locations and browsing for music on our jukeboxes, with hundreds of thousands of these consumers actively engaging in a Heineken and Grammy sponsored interactive activity. Heineken is definitely ahead of the curve when it comes to on-premise, new media applications.

We conveyed to the president the urgent need for the United States to actively insert itself in the crisis and for the president to personally become engaged in what may become a human catastrophe in our own hemisphere,

Tom Smith

We continue to very actively work on our preparation plan, both here at Mayo and, more importantly, at the county and the state (level).

We are very actively pursuing that. We think we have a very good chance to win.

Daniel Okrent

We think it's crucially important for us to understand and be actively involved in the digital distribution of content.

Dick Cheney

we're very actively engaged in trying to keep the lid on there.

Consistent with our prior comments on Mervyn's and Marshall Field's, our top priority is to improve the performance at both these divisions, ... The policies in place strive to drive sales and traffic and are actively focused on these initiatives.

Jhumpa Lahiri

There's obviously a message, or a moral, or something. I think that's good - but it's not something I actively think about, to be honest with you.

The traditional bait and switch approach to credit card marketing doesn't work online. On the web, consumers are in the driver's seat. They are actively shopping for a card that meets their needs. Sites that make that process easy outperform those that don't.

However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued.

Indexing is a long-term strategy. It still makes sense to have a mix of index funds and actively managed funds.

E. B. White

In December, what (Albertsons) meant when they said they were no longer for sale is that they are no longer actively seeking bids. That of course doesn't mean any entity is prevented from bidding.

In many cases, employees don't actively manage their 401(k) portfolios because they don't know how to make good investment decisions, ... They feel safer doing nothing.

Dick Francis

In all income groups you find your average regulation slob who sniggers at anarchy but calls the police indignantly to his burglarized home, who is actively anti-authority until he needs to be saved from someone with a gun.

In any given market, index funds should beat 60 percent of actively managed funds, not 90 percent like it's been.

I knew that he knew the people who had been arrested. I became certain that he and his group were not simply people whose role it was to incite ... these people were actively involved in acts of terror,

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

I found they were not only leaving the company, they were going ABM . . . anything but Microsoft. They were actively producing products that Microsoft would consider competitors.