#despite

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#anybody #away #been #despite #i

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#cities #despite #earth #evident #flooded

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#action #against #alternative #authorities #being

There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books. ↗

— Terence Young

#bond #books #despite #james #james bond

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#girl #i #intimate #kind #order

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous. ↗

— George Thorogood

#bus #bus driver #despite #driver #famous

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal

People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy. ↗

— James Lafferty

#am #character #despite #guy #i

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. ↗

— Michael Medved

#cable tv #conservatives #despite #disregarded #excluded

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#crime #despite #deter #find #fine