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If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon. -- Buzz Aldrin
Defense is not like other discretionary spending. -- Robert M. Gates
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. -- Douglas Adams
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. -- Sarah Bernhardt
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. -- Stephen Covey
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it. -- Armand Salacrou
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. -- Warren Buffett
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. -- Ronald Reagan
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. -- Milton Friedman
I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it. -- Laurence J. Peter
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. -- Randy Pausch
We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. -- Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. -- Milton Friedman
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. -- Susan L. Taylor
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. -- Thomas Jefferson
President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes. -- Charlie Crist
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters. -- Amit Ray
Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations. Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly with Jesus will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I've ever found. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Spending is an addiction. -- Jim DeMint
Spending creates more wealth for everybody. -- Charles M. Schwab
Spending time outdoors makes you feel great. -- Elizabeth Hurley
Spending time with God is the greatest treasure. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit. -- Ronald Reagan
Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring. -- John Boehner
Spending time with children is more important than spending money on children. -- Anthony D. Williams
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships. -- Erik Paulsen
Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life. -- Nicholas Sparks
Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual. -- Dexter Fletcher
Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge. -- Haruki Murakami
Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit. -- Sharon Horgan
Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer. -- Arthur M. Jolly
Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life. -- Samuel R. Delany
Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books -- Meles Zenawi
Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isnt about being fussy; its about taking care of myself. -- Becki Newton
Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself. -- Becki Newton
Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable. -- Paulo Coelho
Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not? -- Sakura Tsukuba
Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose. -- Joyce Meyer
Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share. -- Simon Sinek
Spending time in the presence of Jesus is a non-negotiable. Don't wait until you have time to do it. MAKE time. -- Christine Caine
Spending time with the child or adolescent in mutually enjoyable activities on a regular basis will help to build warmth and trust. -- Timothy Carey
Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car. -- Garrison Keillor
Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product. -- Jeremy Dean
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. -- Robert Duvall
Spending a few moments right when you wake up to inspire and motivate yourself can make all the difference in the rest of your day. -- Daniel Willey
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them. -- Linus Torvalds
Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs. -- Taylor Swift
Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded. -- Jennifer Ellison
Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is. -- Donald Miller
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger. -- Ricky Schroder
I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day. -- Amit Bhatia
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there. -- Marcus du Sautoy
I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible. -- Raul Labrador
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. -- Sam Walton
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. -- Charles Stanley
I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts. -- Brad Goreski
I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best! -- Becky G
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer. -- Dick Cavett
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. -- Joan Jett
Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it. -- Domhnall Gleeson
My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level. -- Scott McCallum
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. -- Eliot Spitzer
I really don't think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I'm respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I'm really looking forward. -- Donald Bren
As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go. -- Sheena Iyengar
This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. -- Ted Cruz
If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. -- Peter Welch
When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed. -- Thomas Perez
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building. -- Natasha Trethewey
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves. -- Charles Stanley
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems! -- Kris Carr
Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization. -- Michael Jordan
I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women. -- Mickey Rooney
Riches are for spending. -- Francis Bacon
Federal spending is atrocious. -- Jason Chaffetz
Cut back your spending now. -- Suze Orman
Hiding spending does not reduce spending. -- Paul Ryan
Stop spending money you don't have. -- Rand Paul
Transportation spending is a win-win proposition. -- Tim Bishop
I'm against spending money to record. -- Grimes
Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels. -- Rand Paul
Government is just spending too much money. -- Bob Schaffer
Avoid spending too much on one thing. -- Michael S. Smith
How do you hold down government spending? -- Milton Friedman
Instead of spending money, I earned it. -- P. T. Barnum
I like spending time with my husband. -- Lara Stone
I really enjoy spending time at home. -- Elena Roger
Expose widespread waste and duplication in federal spending. -- Tom Coburn
We need statutory spending limits written into law. -- Pat Toomey
Stop spending your time; start investing your time. -- Al Duncan
I absolutely love spending time with my family. -- Kevin Alejandro
We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq. -- Tom Allen
I would like to have campaign spending limits. -- Mitt Romney
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. -- William Wordsworth
I came to Congress to help reduce spending. -- Dave Reichert
I love cooking and spending time in mine. -- Laura Prepon
I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money. -- Hume Cronyn
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work. -- Zach Wamp
We need to stop spending money we don't have. -- Paul Ryan
You're spending money on these bitches, you're a trickster. -- G-Eazy
Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity. -- Paul Ryan
I create my social existence by earning and spending. -- Mason Cooley
Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped. -- Gary Johnson
Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending. -- Rand Paul
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending. -- Al Sharpton
Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money. -- Steve Chabot
Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year. -- Mark Foley
Time has changed and now is the age of spending. -- Zhang Yimou
Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget. -- Alexa Von Tobel
We're going to have to control the spending of government. -- Kevin McCarthy
I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids. -- Prince Harry
Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife. -- Ilie Nastase
The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money. -- Dambisa Moyo
Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money. -- Masaaki Imai
The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease. -- Jeb Hensarling
I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories. -- Joshuah Bearman
That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money. -- John Randolph of Roanoke
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. -- Jerry Saltz
Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process. -- Barry Goldwater

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