Giannoulias Quotes

#1. Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

Mark Kirk

#2. Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.

Alexi Giannoulias

#3. When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.

Alexi Giannoulias

#4. Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

Alexi Giannoulias

#5. I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

Alexi Giannoulias

#6. I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

Tom Ford

#7. What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

Angela Carter

#8. With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that's unlike anyone else's, creating an atmosphere you don't so much interpret as breathe.

Kevin Brockmeier

#9. To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#10. The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

Adam Langer

#11. The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don't want to be a part of it.

Anna Kendrick

#12. I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

Alexi Giannoulias

#13. I do like to play people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in a room with.

Michaela Watkins

#14. Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

Suge Knight

#15. We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

Jerry Pournelle

#16. The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

Marina Abramovic

#17. It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

Alexi Giannoulias

#18. One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

Alexi Giannoulias

#19. While I can't promise you that I'm going to be a perfect candidate and I can't promise you that I'm not going to make mistakes, I can unequivocally promise you that no one, no one, will work harder on your behalf, no one will fight harder with you and no one will make you more proud.

Alexi Giannoulias

#20. I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

Alexi Giannoulias

#21. The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

Adora Svitak

#22. Whether you are seeking adventure, or adventure is seeking you. You will find adventure, or adventure will find you.

Unanimous

#23. We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass. There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.

Alexi Giannoulias

#24. If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

Alexi Giannoulias

#25. I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know.

Dick Van Dyke

#26. I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

Donald E. Westlake

#27. I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you.

Elizabeth Wurtzel