Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jarvis Cocker

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

Kavita Ramdas

I work for the Global Fund for Women, an organization that is actively supporting women's rights groups in 160 countries around the world.

With three steps an investment professional can help their client implement an actively managed asset allocation program.

We're still actively engaged in pursuing the possible sale of a controlling interest.

Richard Carpenter

Three to four percent (of employees) will actively monitor what's happening with their accounts.

We're looking to fill that gap as our production starts to go down six or seven years from now. And these mines, as everyone is learning, take longer and longer to drill out and to permit and build, so we're actively looking now.

We're actively working to get where we want to be.

We're actively trying to improve the team. We're not just here sitting at a table twiddling our thumbs.

Bill Nichols

We're actively recruiting and we're checking the mail every day to see who's coming.

We're actively pursuing and will pursue building clean, efficient coal power plants in this state.

We're actively looking at what's on the market and given internal resources, the speed at which we can act and financial flexibility, we'd be able to execute a transaction relatively quickly.

We're actively lobbying for the bill. We're down there every day.

We're actively investigating and following up on some suspicious leads,

We're a counter-marketing program that's not allowed to market. We've had to revise our methods and find creative, cheap ways to get youth actively involved.

The CPPCC National Committee will continue to actively develop its friendly exchanges with foreign parliaments, international organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations.

When Gov. Warner announced his Virginia Works initiative last spring, we actively advocated with the governor and the secretary of commerce and trade that the Artisans Center be the lead organization for that initiative. We weren't successful with that, even though we did get the secretary and the Department of Housing and Community Development to remember that there is an Artisans Center of Virginia that should be an integral part of anything that they do related to the works of artisans anywhere in Virginia.

Elizabeth Blackburn

I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.

Cassandra Clare

We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.

Tom Sturridge

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents - aside from 'Gulliver's Travels.'

We're know of no other suspects. We're not actively looking for anybody.

We are continuing to negotiate actively with the representatives and hospital industry to keep talks going through this session.

George Grey

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

Seth Godin

When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only a tiny fraction actively participate.

We are not actively looking at acquisitions right now.

Wal-Mart isn't the only company making corporate contributions. Several companies are actively contributing. At the end of the day, this company still has a very steep hill to climb because its problems are too endemic.

Kim Basinger

I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

Ben Hecht

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Tourism leaders are gaining a better understanding of the value of .travel, and as more and more tourism entities are actively using their .travel domains in large-scale marketing efforts, nations that have not yet have been able to register all of their names are telling us that the additional time is critical. We believe the extension is in the best interest of the global tourism industry, which is who we serve.

to work actively to end the violence and maintain calm.

Dave Reichert

Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.

Virginia Postrel

A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.