Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Sharpton

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

I think the boycott will die of its own weight,

Alejandro Aviles

The people who are participating in this boycott are simply letting everybody know that we have an impact. The people organizing this want to make sure the message is positive.

Amiruddin Saud

If the temporary visas can be reviewed only after three years, then our boycott will also be lifted only after three years.

William Slemaker

Our governor could boycott Mexico. Tell the citizens to boycott Mexico to give us answers.

Heather Mills

People in every other country in the world should now boycott Chinese goods.

Roberto Reveles

It does keep the momentum going and keeps it on the front pages and on the minds of the public who have been inconvenienced. The boycott demonstrated how virtually every product that the public buys and every service the public receives has been touched by a Latino immigrant.

Malcolm Hoenlein

Rogers told us he regretted hosting the meeting with that group and that he would never have hosted it if he had known the organization might call for a boycott of Israel.

L. Neil Smith

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

Charlotte Simonsen

We have never marketed ourselves as a Danish product, we see ourselves as an international brand.

Goeran Persson

When we get to our referendum, nobody will be talking about the Danish referendum,

Anders Rasmussen

We deeply respect all religions, including Islam, and it is important for me to tell you that the Danish people have no intention to offend Muslims.

Freedom of expression is an internal Danish issue, but this has a totally different dimension. This is about Denmark having offended millions of Muslims.

Amiruddin Saud

Starting today (Wednesday), we will halt imports of Danish goods as our way of protesting the publication of the cartoons.

Amr Khaled

The Danish government should do a lot of things. The government should apologize.

Pierce Brosnan

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.

Susanne Bier

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

Carsten Juste

In our opinion, the 12 drawings were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims, for which we apologize.

J. R. Moehringer

Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

M. Night Shyamalan

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

Dennis Brown

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Ed Droste

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

bell hooks

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Barry Sonnenfeld

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Nick Miller

We have to get everybody on the same page. Everybody had their own definition of what is appropriate and inappropriate.

Alan Greenspan

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Alan Autry

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Adnan Badran

We want to strengthen the commercial, economic relationship,

David Suzuki

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Zeng Peiyan

We are at the stage of economic development where we do not have the luxury to be wasteful,

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

David Briggs

We're in a narrow range, moving around about 1 percent over the last three days, and it looks like the markets are waiting for some economic figures or waiting on oil because there's really no reason to push anything now.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.

James Monroe

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Donald Tusk

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

James Peterson

So far the protectionists have won in the European Union,

Loretta Napoleoni

Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.

Elie Cohen

There is a resurgence of the nation-state in Europe. These nationalist and protectionist instincts are hard to reconcile with the idea of European integration.

Hu Jintao

We hope to see European Union plays a more important role on issues pertaining to Europe and the world as a whole,

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

John A. Logan

Legally, ... purchasers of goods over the Internet have always been required to pay sales tax on their purchases, but as a practical matter, many haven't, and this will be seen as a tax increase.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Michael Niemira

I think initially the industry will try to keep the discounts more narrowly focused. The problem is, if sales don't pick up, retailers will start to spread out discounts to those goods not selling as well.

Jim Sullivan

People have seen weakening in goods prices and have been pointing to deflation. This tells us we're not going there.

Loretta Young

I was not quite 4 when Mamma moved all of us and all our worldly goods to Hollywood.

Jim Amoss

His view prevailed. The goods went back to the shelves and on they drove, empty-handed.

Igor Ivanov

on goods that may be used for humanitarian problems in Iraq.

Lorenzen Wright

What hurts the most is losing the way we did.

Lindsay Bowen

We didn't want to go out this way. It hurts a lot right now.

Kevin Rogers

I saw it, and to me it was a flagrant foul. There's no place for it in the game. It hurts him, it hurts our program, and frankly, it's just embarrassing.

Tom Davies

It hurts when you lose a tough one like that. That's why Southern Illinois is where they are, and where they've been.

Alex Rodriguez

It hurts to think about where we would be without these guys. They've been a godsend.

Teddy Lehman

It hurts to lose. We played well all year and when it really mattered we didn't. All we can do is regroup and try to come out and get one more win.

Tyrell Sutton

It hurts to go from the 20 to the 20 and not put it in for six.

It hurts that he hasn't seen my rise in the film industry or opening the Pop Shop,

Jaret Wright

It hurts right now, ... My neck's real stiff and I have a headache. But it could have been worse.

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Guillermo Ortiz

Parent banks' stakeholders are not necessarily the same as those of their subsidiaries. Moreover, their interests may diverge, especially during a crisis.