Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ridley

There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.'

There's a lot of competition in the banking sector and the bank's recovery is quite slow so I'm not too bullish on this stock.

There's a lot of bands in this school who would like to participate.

There's a litter problem here. People clean their fish on the banks on don't clean up the mess.

There's a large segment of the population that doesn't realize what an influence Folkways had on a number of bands that they listen to. And from the Folkways point of view, this really carries on the folk tradition -- the idea that it's an oral history and everything is passed from generation to generation.

Justin Vernon

There's a large opportunity for Bon Iver to be a special thing, even from a business standpoint - just trying to do cooler things. Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

There may be some help for the euro if the European Central Bank raises interest rates,

This is the time of year all the Wall Street bankers and traders basically know where they stand inside their organization. They've been given their bonuses, they've either been promoted or nor promoted, so it's a time when everybody considers what their options may be.

This is the second time in a couple of years that a limousine has been used as a getaway car in a bank robbery. I've been doing this job a long time and nothing surprises me any more.

This may be the realization after a long period of time that gold is no longer the bedrock of the world's financial system. And if it's no longer required as a reserve currency, then it makes sense for central banks to reduce their holdings of gold and convert to more profitable investments.

This machine is a joke. It sets us back a long way. We've done a lot to hinder the negative effects of alcohol. It's just not a smart thing and should be banned nationwide.

This lending has been lucrative to banks here. The housing market has been vibrant.

Adam Cole

This left orders in the fourth quarter up an impressive 4.1% quarter-on-quarter and points to strong capital spending in the early months of 2006, which will likely make the Bank of Japan that much more confident that the time is approaching to start removing its ultra-easy monetary policy.

Jonathan Adelstein

This is truly a banner commitment for the wireless broadband industry.

This is yen supportive. People are starting to get quite a defined time line on when the Bank of Japan will end its easing and are quite convinced its going to happening next week.

They probably cased the bank -- knew when she arrived.

They're just too big and strong for us, especially inside. We just tried to pack the inside, keeping Langhorne and company from banging us to death.

Mike Einziger

They're doing a tour that's sponsored by MySpace with a lot of other bands that are probably heavy rock. They're gonna stick out like a sore thumb. It'll be really cool.

Dwight Yoakam

They're both very fragmented. You'll start out with a master take, the whole band plays it, and then we start doing coverage of each instrument, and it's very similar to filmmaking in terms of the process, time involved and the repetition of performance.

Dwight Yoakam

They're both very fragmented, ... You'll start out with a master take, the whole band plays it, and then we start doing coverage of each instrument, and it's very similar to filmmaking in terms of the process, time involved and the repetition of performance.

They're a weird program. Their band is weird. The band wears trees, and they're jumping around. Their stands are weird. It seems like a big stadium with not so many people all the time. It's quiet. That means we have to bring our own energy.

They regard this as a crime not much different from a bank robbery. Their philosophy's very simple: If you interview enough people, eventually you'll find somebody who knows something. They do not think this is a perfect crime. At some point, they believe, the people who perpetrated this will be bragging either to people they know or in postings on the Web. If you start leaving your handle around, you're leaving a trail the FBI can follow.

They're down around 15 to 20 percent from their highs. You've got an opportunity to buy some of these bank stocks at decent values here.

Jack Layton

They're about dimes and dollars. A few dimes to you in tax cuts, many, many dollars to banks and oil companies.

They're one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

They're not robbing banks because they got laid off from their jobs at General Motors.

They're not banking on him necessarily to open a movie. They are banking on him to make the leading lady sexy and make her look good.

They're moving away from bank cards and credit cards -- short-term installment debt -- into various forms of mortgage borrowing with lower interest rates and long terms.

They have the contractual right to release him. They do not have the contractual right to ban him from the premises.

Tom Green

There's a very thin market and the banks seem to be taking their toll on the market.

There's a trend now for central banks in the region to raise rates. Thailand has been raising rates since last year and it has served them well.

There's a threshold, and once you cross it, you're really not a credit union in the true sense of the word. After you've grown to be about a billion dollars or $5 billion, and you're offering everything from life insurance to stock brokerage to the full range of financial products ---- perhaps some community banks in the market don't even offer ---- it seems the tax exemption they enjoy is a bit misplaced.

There's every reason to believe a Wal-Mart bank would operate with the same recklessness of its retail operation.