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We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded as the home base for inspired musical talent. -- Steve Vai
For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China. -- Jennifer Dunn
Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially. -- David Dreman
I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day. -- Steve Vai
I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers. -- Steve Vai
Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists. -- Steve Vai
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties. -- John Turner
I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff. -- Ezra Cornell
It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. -- James K. Polk
During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson. -- Robert Dallek
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else. -- Chili Davis
Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds. -- Bradley A. Smith
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. -- Omar Khayyam
Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives. -- David Harsanyi
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want. -- Charles Koch
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate. -- Bob Barr
Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library. -- Laird Barron
As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion. -- Gary Johnson
I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely. -- Elliott Abrams
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. -- J. Reuben Clark
I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967. -- Alan Dershowitz
Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents. -- Richard Engel
Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses. -- Mitt Romney
Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations. -- George Will
I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare. -- Paul Ryan
When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties. -- Thomas Frank
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions. -- Robin Marantz Henig
If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret. -- Elizabeth Warren
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Will is intention favored by emotions. -- Raheel Farooq
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck. -- George S. Clason
Life is but a fine wine to be sipped and favored. -- Pittacus Lore
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest... -- Cassandra Clare
By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life. -- Bryant McGill
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. -- Seneca the Younger
I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68. -- Howard Dean
Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored. -- Joseph Chenier
For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas. -- Jasper Fforde
I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away. -- Joe Harris
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade. -- Dennis Kucinich
Who is the most favored of God? He from whom the greatest good comes to His creatures. -- Muhammad
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations. -- Bob Woodward
For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Would it even be possible to add a "suggested wallpaper" feature that analyzes your favored walls and shows similar ones? -- George Herbert
We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries. -- Charles Koch
The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God. -- Daniel L Dreisbach
Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke. -- Buzz Aldrin
I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities. -- DMX
The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature. -- Aristotle
A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings. -- George V. Higgins
We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians. -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away. -- Paul Feyerabend
The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class. -- Emily James Smith Putnam
Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results. -- Katherine Dunn
Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law. -- Henry Campbell Black
The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment. -- Pete McCloskey
Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary -- Pope Pius X
The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you. -- Richard Steele
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want. -- Charles Koch
Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans. -- Ishmael Reed
I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. -- Philip Sidney
Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could. -- Louis Pasteur
A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved. -- John Rawls
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. -- Thomas Jefferson
The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord. -- Charles Spurgeon
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. -- Abraham Lincoln
Men can see the greatest miracles and miss the glory of God. What generation was ever favored with miracles as Jesus' generations was? Yet that generation crucified the Son of God! -- Tom Wells
I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat. -- Patricia Marx
In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason. -- Voltaire
When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good. -- Philip Gulley
When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful. -- Eric Hoffer
Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of a decade...every green job created, eliminated 2.2 real jobs and cost around $800,000 each! -- Ron Paul
I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal. -- Charles R. Morris
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. -- Irving Babbitt
Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power. -- James Madison
Under the blessings of Divine Providence ... It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. -- James K. Polk

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