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Tom Golisano Quotes

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Tom Golisano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: aviator
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1941

Topics

Money Happy Too Much Tax Taxes Last

I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks.

Robert Powell

Small Remember House Garden Lived

Yes, every venture is always filled with apprehensions. But if we were to conduct ourselves continuously on that aspect, then we would lose the most important reason to be in this profession: to challenge the art of and be part of what is commonly known as our creative instincts.

Amitabh Bachchan

Art Challenge Creative Lose Reason

Pop music, I think there's a reason why kids connect to it.

Spike Jonze

Music Think Why Reason Connect Kids

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

Sister Parish

Family Aunt Sentimental Even Our

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Robert Delaunay

Knowledge World Perception Vastness

What I can do as the member of the United States Senate is try to do everything I can to keep America safe.

Tom Cotton

America I Can Try Everything Safe

When I was younger, I had terrible skin... my mother has terrible skin. Male-pattern hair loss is starting to come in... my dad is bald. It's so unfair; my brother's tall, has perfect skin, great hair, but I'm like the runt.

Russell Tovey

Mother Great Brother Hair Loss Skin

Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.

Michael Leunig

God Words Joy Moments Feeling Say

I have accepted the fact that I don't work very quickly, that I have been rejected a lot as a writer, and that what I do is unusual, so I just have to accept the terms and that it's going to take longer. It is what it is.

Min Jin Lee

Work Accept It Is What It Is Going

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

Louis Sullivan

Man Mind Doing Long Late Unknown

I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.

Lorde

Time Talking You Go Try Stay

Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

Joshua Foer

Memories Time Job Vacation Drive