#resents

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself. ↗

— Ice Cube

#brings #building #challenge #climbing #every

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. ↗

— Larry Elder

#america #call #capitalism #consequences #failure

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#economic #economic power #establish #insurance #most

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#around #better #both #common #expressing

I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream. ↗

— Mark Kirk

#american dream #billions #chart #danger #debt

It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#into #liar #problem #professional #represents

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#capital #capital investment #cattle #cow #fertile

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#admired #art #come #him #honesty

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#economy #joke #looking #might #model

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. ↗

— Peter King

#danger #national #national security #present #presents