Quotes with billion

  • Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
  • There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
  • For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
  • Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
  • As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
  • People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
  • We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.
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  • Caroll Spinney Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Gloria Steinem Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Barton Seaver 80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Everett M. Dirksen A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.
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  • Carl Sagan After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Peter de Vries Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, ''What's in it for me?''
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Bill Nye As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bernie Sanders Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ben Carson Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bob Brown Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Bernie Sanders Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ben Carson I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Carlos Slim If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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