Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Wyden

I want to get this done, ... I want a strong bill to go to the president's desk, and, based on this hearing, I think we have a lot of work to do.

Arthur Blank

I want to be clear that this decision is not being made based on our performance this season -- we're looking forward, not back. This is purely about the future of the organization.

John Ratzenberger

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

Jim Tressel

It will be based on where we are (on the field), what we're wanting to do.

It won't come here based on the possibility. It wants to know the city is committed.

It was just a smart move for me, based on me and my family huddling together and doing what was best for me. I came here, my grades improved, everything just turned around completely.

Tara Strong

The voice I choose for the characters is based on the character description and/or drawing given to me at the audition.

The USDA generates crop production forecasts based on estimates of planted and harvested acreage and two types of yield indications -- a farmer-reported survey and objective measurements.

The urgency of . . . putting those programs in place with mandatory elements was based on this incorrect assessment.

The vehicles are replaced based on the useful life cycle of the equipment.

The vehicle is based in large part on the Pontiac Pursuit.

They did it again; it's amazing. Based on what I see right now, there's nothing I can find fault with in this report.

They will be given challenges based on phenomena such as hurricanes, fog, tornados and tsunamis. So you see this year it's pretty relevant.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

The governor has never rejected an idea based on who it came from. She is always open to ideas.

We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, execute, keep going after the loose basketballs, we can make our own luck.

Clive Beddoe

We sell seats based on USD$50 oil and then fly people at USD$65 oil. Obviously, it's not going to be good for earnings,

We select our members based on like or similar thinking.

George Lewis

We selected Autotote and Scientific Games based on their industry reputation, the success they have helped bring to the Mohegan Sun Casino racebook operation, and their demonstrated commitment to the Ho-Chunk Nation.

We need to have a discussion based on data and the social significance of that data. Considering the time constraints, I think it was a good study.

We need to restrict it to the group most vulnerable, based on the most recent research. I can not predict where this will go in the future.

Ann Macbeth

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

The government's prosecutions of corporate fraud will be judged based on the verdict in this case. If there is an acquittal, the government's corporate fraud prosecutions will be deemed at best a modest success. To the extent the government is being tested, this is the final exam.

Alan Furst

I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.

Albert Murray

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

Adora Svitak

The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.

Apolo Ohno

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

Adam McKay

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

Douglas Alexander

Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The council of foreign ministers will decide objectively based on these conditions.

We were expecting, based on watching tapes, that in that kind of situation they would give him the shot. We were doing whatever we could to push them out farther for that shot.

Amy Bloom

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

Allison Tolman

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.