#mill

The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#administration #another #any #before #bush

The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#american worker #areas #care #create #crucial

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#big fan #country #even #fan #huge

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #been #bottom #bottom line #could

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#back #creatures #excited #find #go

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#dennis miller #funny #i #i love #i think

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#arthur #could #idea #imagine #life

The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#concert #country #every #happened #i

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#china #got #hit #hit record #know