Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Mones

Both the nationalists and the communists disapproved of jazz and feared it. They thought it would weaken people's resolve to fight off the invasion. And most Americans know, China did ban all Western music for about 30 years, starting in 1949. This is where it started.

We didn't ban it, but we probably haven't embraced it to the degree we have in past years,

Donald Trump

I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.

Chino Moreno

A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.

We are limiting the scope to transactional e-mails, which we define as bank statements or purchase receipts where our users have a pre-existing relationship with that sender.

I had a kind of artrock band called Peanut for a while, which eventually helped me over my fear of singing. That was a big step for me. I never dreamed I could sing songs in front of people.

Arlo Guthrie

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.

There is a veiled threat from the U.S. authorities to ban Venezuelan oil.

Dannel Malloy

A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana.

Maurice Greene

My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.

Marcus Samuelsson

Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall.

We want to make sure that despite the scattered showers, we want people to remember that the fire danger is very high to extreme and the burn ban is still in effect.

We are making full efforts to implement the ban and our raiding teams are in the city.

Simon Hoggart

Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps.

The decision by the unions is unfortunate, but it clearly underlines the need for a level playing field. This affirms the need for a ban on smoking in all public places.

The department obviously has a concern about the safety issues, as well as the snowmobile going into the water and fuel seepage. But for now there are no plans I know of to ban skipping.

Today's Pew poll shows that Congressional legislation to repeal the military's ban enjoys unparalleled support. Congressional leaders should heed their constituents and lift the ban.

Natalie Maines

We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months. We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.

We are now back on an even footing with our competitors in the EC (European Union) and I believe the quality of the British product will ensure that we begin to recapture our share of beef sales on the continent as soon as the ban is officially lifted.

We had expected that the government would lift a ban on U.S. beef after checking U.S. meatpacking plants by themselves.

We have broader goals, like to become better musicians or a better band or better songwriters or to put on a better live show.

Jim Rogers

We're working with Canada right now to obtain more information to determine whether or not the ban can be scaled down in size or eliminated or if it needs to remain in place.

Dean Wareham

Once you hit 40, being in a band - a committee voting constantly on what you're going to be doing next month - it's more of a challenge. And when you have a kid as well.

While it is clearly premature to sound the all-clear on inflation, the October consumer prices data are largely reassuring for the Bank of England and boost hopes that inflation has peaked,

Without the Bank of America-Fleet announcement today, we'd be looking at a much more sluggish performance for bank stocks in the near term. There are still a number of questions about the economy.

With the branches that remain open, there will be longer lines. Sometimes a bank will basically close the larger branches and push people onto ATMs or even supermarket branches.

We have made his fresh videos and hope we will either get his ban lifted or reduced.

Michael Gray

We will have everything a full-service bank offers at that location. I know some of the plans were redone to better suit our needs over there.

Dweezil Zappa

We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It's just not financially possible to do so.

We will certainly not give up the fight to protect America's horses from the French and Belgium dinner plates. This points to the need for Congress to pass a permanent ban for horse slaughter for human consumption.

We've only played 10 or 12 shows with Matt. Markku left a month and a half, maybe two, ago. We met Matt through Chris, our drummer. They both come from up north (the Bay area), and Matt was playing in a band called Tsunami Bomb. He was great, so we called him in.

When someone as important as the Bank of Japan governor says something like that, it's enough to put investors on their toes, making them believe the fund injection could be decided at any time.

First, it is a decent local New York franchise. With the recent sale of North Fork, the retail bank is the second largest regionally based and regionally focused bank behind Commerce Bank.