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I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.


Richard Strauss
Tags: Am I Am May
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel
Tags: You Up Your
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
Bernie Sanders
Tags: Just Even Made
It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.
Martin Rees
Tags: Science More Than
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
Tags: Only Mind Happy
In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
Gary Johnson
Tags: Know Then Create
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.
Robert Reich
Tags: More Always Been
My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
Jack Markell
If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Tags: Work You Because
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But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.


Gerald Finzi
Tags: Work Really First
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As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.


Scott Weiland
Tags: Some Were Guys
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I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.


Snoop Dogg
Tags: Like Going Where
I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less.
Terri Sewell
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There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.


Gerald Finzi
Tags: Work You World
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Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.


Fredrik Bajer
Tags: War Peace Any
What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incentives for people to work, produce, and increase output. So I would support a carbon tax in replacement for a progressive income tax.
Arthur Laffer
Tags: Work Great You
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I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.


Peabo Bryson
Tags: Food Think Really
President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.
Rob Portman
Tags: Mom Like About
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I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.


Paul Simon
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The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.


Douglas Engelbart
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History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.


Austan Goolsbee
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
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I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.


Thomas Piketty
In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax increases. There's also a tax increase coming in 2010 on carried interest. This rate will rise from its current level of 15 percent to 35 percent, and then it will rise again in 2011.
Arthur Laffer
Tags: Will Then Also
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
John Linder
Tags: Legal Our Fact
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes
Tags: More Than Being
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
Rebecca West
Tags: Because More Than
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.
William O'Neill
Tags: Time Had Been
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Tags: Truth Will Any
We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
Paul Simon
Tags: Would Then Where
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
Tags: People Think More
I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
Maggie Hassan
Tags: Time Had Years
I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.
Jessica Simpson
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
Adam Carolla
My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail.
Robert Atkins
Tags: Up Will Then
The U.S. berates China for its exchange rate policy, which Washington doesn't like. But one-sided pressure on China to change its exchange rate is misplaced.
Robert Mundell
Tags: Change Like Which
Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.
Marek Belka
Tags: Our Will How
At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.
Mike McGavick
I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?
Wilbur Ross
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
Diane Ackerman
Tags: Health Our Own