Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Martinez

Voters tend to decide based upon the information that they have. If personal information about a candidate is all they have, voters may use it as an indication of how they might behave in office.

With the upcoming introduction of new vehicles based on the GMT 900 platform, GM should regain lost share in the remarkably profitable large truck and large SUV segments.

Mohamed El-Erian

The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people.

Philip Schultz

Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.

Peter Senge

How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.

Peter Pace

We do not have a plan that specifically says we will be down below 100,000 by the end of 2006. What we have is a plan that allows us to keep what we have today for the foreseeable future and then off-ramps and on-ramps based on conditions on the ground.

We do it so when we're setting our spending priorities, we're setting them based on what people want us to be spending their money on.

We do have to have some guidelines, but I think we can have the guidelines based on number of participants and look at each individual sport.

Janis Joplin

Which showed that my interest in rock was not based in a vast knowledge of their work. It was about them.

Which is immediate fear for a person's life or the life of another. It clearly fell within those guidelines based on the information received by the board.

We received information from a citizen who suspected it may be a marijuana grow operation based on observations they had made on their own.

Rachel Sklar

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

Kathleen Brown

We expect about 30 to 40 percent of that will finance women-owned business, based on the makeup of the small-business segment, but there is no upper limit.

We estimate A & B's investment to be around $650 million based on our plans right now. This could be a six to eight, possible a ten, year project by the time all the residential is sold.

We really wanted to book performers and guest judges from varying backgrounds. We even have a pro wrestler joining us this year. Big & Rich kicked off our premiere with unbridled energy and provided the contestants with a lot of great suggestions based on their own experiences in the industry. I think Nashville Star fans will find themselves more excited than ever as the season begins to unfold.

We have some good expectations for Nissan for the coming year based on a richer U.S. product cycle.

We have some discretionary funds based on need or merit. We thought the need for this program was there because of the growing Hispanic population in Logansport schools.

We can't be that specific about the economic impact, it's still being reviewed by the auditor. But we still expect (the effect) to be significant, based on their last application.

We categorically object to most of the unedited report's content and conclusions as largely without merit and not based clearly in the facts.

We can understand their (parents') concern. But based on what we were dealing with, school was the safest place they could have been.

We do think, in fact, there has been a reduction in the number of calls based on the voluntary compliance.

We do suspect that Microsoft will still release an early patch given the imminent danger to its customers from this flaw. As stated by the company about two years ago, patches can be released within two days if needed. Based on prior public commitments, we do suspect that Microsoft will issue the patch early once they are convinced that customers require the use of Internet Explorer in production environments.

We'll try to compare what has been observed (Monday) with these two time-lines to see what's possible and what's impossible based on that information. That's really the only thing we can do.

Tie Domi

When you're in the hockey hotbed ... everyone is entitled to their opinion. What bothers me is when it's based on wrong information,

Mary Gordon

I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.

Plaxico Burress

I was never really liked in that city. I mean, I don't think I was liked as a person. I was kind of seen as a black kid, young African-American, cornrows, drives fancy cars, wears diamond earrings, things like that. They just kind of based their perception off of what I drove and what I did and things like that. All those things were never a part of any other player on that team but me.

Brad Soderberg

I would like it to be permanent. Unless it's absolutely, totally necessary, I'm not going to change it based on the opponent's starting lineup. I told the other guys, 'If one of you guys proves to me you should be in there, you're in there.' I think that will help our consistency a little if that fifth guy isn't a question as to who's going to be in.

My company in the U.S., Pratt Industries U.S.A., has grown from scratch to become a billion-dollar business based on recycling, as well as the largest Australian-owned employer of U.S. citizens.

Dave Parker

My comments at that time were based upon some projects that were coming forward that, when you read the projects and read the proposals and the staff reports, it made you wonder who was driving the long-range planning, ... Were we waiting for developers to come forward with a plan or were we stepping forward with a vision of our own?

Jim Brown

My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.

Stephen Colbert

My character is not based on (Bill) O'Reilly, ... It's the same guy from The Daily Show. You'd never say it's O'Reilly.

Charlize Theron

My character is fictional, but she is based on all the women who fought the sexual harassment case, and everything you see in the film actually happened.

My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal ego toward their material.