Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angel capital, whether invested through organized angel groups or by wealthy individuals acting independently, is essential to entrepreneurial start-up activity in the United States. Considering that women's financial power and wealth has grown in the past 20 years -approaching half of the nation's net worth - it appears women are under-represented in this type of investing and that we are missing an opportunity for new investments and perspectives. The gap between the potential and actual participation of women as angel investors raises important questions that need to be addressed.

Billie Armstrong

Are you a canadian? Oh, cause your sure as heck acting like one!

Energy's acting well even with the price of crude down thanks to the Exxon upgrade. That's why we're falling more on the positive side.

FDA's action today is another example of the agency acting swiftly to alert the public to significant drug safety information needed to use a drug in a safe manner,

Paul Ford

Every time we think the bond market is acting irrationally, we usually find out a month or two later that it was rational, that some people participating in the bond market knew more than most of us economists did -- which is not really a great feat.

Ruben Aguilar

At no time, under no condition, may anyone receive illegal money. No one may in this way aid in the laundering of money, and nobody can be in favor of organized crime acting with impunity.

Ruben Aguilar

At no time, under no condition, may anyone receive illegal money, ... No one may in this way aid in the laundering of money, and nobody can be in favor of organized crime acting with impunity.

Alan Rosenberg

Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.

At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry.

At the time he made his decision he was acting under the law of the land. In this new era of the NCAA looking out for the good of the student-athlete we hope they'll allow him to return to school.

Bette Davis

Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother!

We think our ends are pretty solid. Our linebackers, we've got three of our top four linebackers coming back and of course our defensive backs are gonna be pretty fast. But no one's acting like they're hungry and it's been real concerning. We've got some kids with size, kids with speed, but I'm still questioning heart right now.

We are very pleased to see the police acting so swiftly. None of us - residents, police and council - will tolerate anti-social behaviour of any kind.

Daniel Radcliffe

We are older now, ... so it is good for us to feel like we're not just child actors any more. We've grown up and are now able to make our own acting decisions.

Bond investors are discounting a slowing economy in the months ahead. Equity investors see a rebound ahead, and that instead of acting as a brake on the economy, the Fed's continuing hawkish stance is likely to serve as a sign that all is well, ... If you ask me, it sounds like at least one group of investors has been smoking something.

Visual Sciences has been acting in stealth mode for the past three years, and they by far have the most phenomenal product on the market. And unlike any other business intelligence tool, theirs is really designed for marketers.

U.S. ambassadors have been acting like schoolyard bullies. The U.S. campaign has not succeeded in undermining global support for the court. But it has succeeded in making the U.S. government look foolish and mean-spirited.

Steven Michael Quezada

You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I could really feed myself and eventually feed my family. I was an actor who learned to be a comic, and it's cool to come back and get back into acting - move forward in the direction I started out to do in the beginning.

Acting very quickly became a dream of mine, but the acting game privileges youth. It takes a while to build credits and, because of that, it's not the kind of career you can jump into in your 40s or 50s. The ship sets sail by then.

Paddy Considine

Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.

Paul Butcher

I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Number 23,' it was really cool because now I get to be in a movie with Jim Carrey. Acting in this movie was really a learning experience for me.

I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist doing individual and group crisis intervention and family therapy. I did that for two years. I left to do 'Boston Legal.' So my psychology career has been interwoven into my acting career, and it's my safety net and fallback.

Sonakshi Sinha

I'm eternally grateful for the fact that I'm doing what I like best. I thank my stars for it. I wonder why I wasted all that time being fat. I should have lost weight and started acting earlier. But as they say, things happen when they are meant to.

Sonakshi Sinha

I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far.

Steve Buscemi

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

Mayim Bialik

To be honest, it's considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on.

What is extraordinary is that they were caught, and for a change Parliament seems to be acting swiftly about it. It can become the beginning of a change. You never know.

To have the court step in and say we want to review the president's decisions as he's acting as commander in chief, that's significant.

Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the surrounding land surface. In the winter, the opposite happens. In winter the water remains warmer than the surrounding land.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

Witnesses have described (Ryan) as acting like God, Hitler or Mike Ditka, whom he prides himself after.

Kelly McGillis

To me, acting is acting, ... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

William Stafford

The saddest are those not right in their liveswho are acting to make things right for others:they act only from the self --and that self will never be right:no luck, no help, no wisdom.