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We're teaming up with a major Hollywood studio, and we're making a movie called 'Copper.' It's set on Mars in the 24th century. By then we've got 27 billion people in the world, copper is the world's most valuable metal because everything runs on electricity, and there's no more burning of hydrocarbons.
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We're talking big numbers. With just a 10 percent reduction, we can save more than $50 billion a year.
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We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen. Rick Perry
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We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq. Tom Allen
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Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards. Ivan Glasenberg
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With carryover supplies of corn expected to be more than 2 billion bushels, producers should plan to make some sales sometime from January to May.
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With billions of dollars sunk into the soil in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, ... it's kind of too late. We're there, and we're staying there.
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With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
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With an estimated 13 billion chickens in China, this is such an extremely critical issue that there was a very high level of interest on the part of the governmental officials who attended.
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With all the real and pressing problems facing this state, the last thing we need to do is raise taxes $2.4 billion to create a new government-run bureaucracy to replace our current system of preschools.
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You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books. David Gerrold
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With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity. Ben Parr
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The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around. Nonetheless, the early universe still had the right stuff for life, and contained worlds that were just as suitable for spawning biology and intelligence as our own. Seth Shostak
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The bottom line is, like, one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up. That's a fantastically large percentage. That means in our galaxy, there's on the order of tens of billions of Earth-like worlds.
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The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales. Calvin Klein
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We're trying to help the Harper government deliver on its commitment to cut spending. There are billions of dollars to be saved. Elizabeth May
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We're looking at a $2.1B-revenue company now, whereas two years ago it was a $1.3 billion company.
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There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It's not a long-term measure. Brian Acton
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WhatsApp will bring Facebook another billion users. We will be a billion-user product. Whether there is a direct valuation or an indirect valuation, there is value, and Facebook understands that well.
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Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack. Bjorn Lomborg
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The international limit on mobile texting, or SMS, is 160 characters. We wanted Twitter to be entirely readable and writable on every single one of the over five billion mobile phones on this planet, because they all have SMS built in. So we said it has to be within 160 characters, all the tweets. Biz Stone
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In starting to learn about film festivals and what were good ones - 'cause there are five billion of them - it was just a really good East Coast festival. And I thought this little movie was an East Coast film. Andrew McCarthy
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Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry. Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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There is over $10.5 billion in coins in U.S. piggybanks right now. That's what we're going after. Brian Turner
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The opening ceremony is a crucial part of the Olympic Games. The success of a high-level Olympic Games with distinguishing features depends on the level of the opening ceremony. The 1.3 billion Chinese people are full of aspirations for the Olympic Games, and they have very high expectations for the opening ceremony. For billions of TV viewers around the world, the opening ceremony is also the 'first impression' that the Olympic Games have to offer.
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The parts of that market where we compete are both nine billion euros,
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The photographic market remains a $5 billion market, still,
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When you get thousands, or millions or billions of them together in one spot, it is a fantastic, deafening chorus.
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When you factor in expansion of nine present plants, there's a total (production) capacity of 6 billion gallons possible.
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There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion. Alexander Haig
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There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy. Kurt Braunohler
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There are 5 billion people in the world in countries that are poorer than Mexico.