#mill

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#capable #careers #comes #courage #did

They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#ad #attacked #campaign #doing #ended

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#brave #computer #enough #entirely #guinea

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#against #always #budget #committee #conservative

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. ↗

— John Engler

#building #doing #employ #finished #into

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space. ↗

— Donald Miller

#community #donald-miller #inspirational #stories #family

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#around #budget #dark #dead #easier

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#down #german #go #hollywood #i

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aimed #being #certain #directly #end