Sums Quotes

The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You`re still tainted with that brush. I`m not called Jude Law, I have three names; I`m called `Hunk Jude Law` or `Heartthrob Jude Law`. In England anyway, that`s my full name. That`s the cheap language that`s thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn`t look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

It was so hard to talk about things. My life has been so normal for the last 20 years. It`s funny because I was so much a part of the scene. Debbie Harry and I stayed in touch for years. I have no regrets, Iggy sums it up in that song he wrote `Look Away`. It may sound horrifying, I`d been with him also when I was 13, but it wasn`t back then, it was all fun. Although, when I left the scene, I left it for good

"I think this story sums up my career the best. One time I was walking in an airport somewhere and I saw this woman with her young son. The son looked up at me and it was obvious that he recognized me. He thought for a second and he said `Mom, there goes an old Gomer!`"

I still don`t know if I made the right decision when I went into acting. I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn`t gone into acting. Mind you, it`s a great life, going around pretending you`re other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is `to be prepared`.

If we win trophies then I suppose we draw more fans and the club is more successful commercially. But it`s not up to me to do the sums.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

By limiting your losses to 30 big bets, you are effectively minimizing the time you spend playing with a poor table image, playing passively, or steaming at the table and maximizing the amount of time you spend playing your A-game. If you don`t go beyond 30 big bets, you won`t dump off large sums when you are playing poorly or are in a bad game. Loss limiting acts as an objective stop-gap.

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher`s ability to do sums, rather than the village bum`s ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough - the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

High-tech and biotech firms that effectively attract and retain venture capital should not be excluded from the SBIR program simply because the nature of their research requires large sums of investment.

(But what`s not clear is whether all these players posturing for money is good for the image of the NFL or the quality of its product. The league has always benefited from the perception that the players` paychecks really do hinge on performance, and that a failure to produce could lead directly to unemployment. As players (and agents) get more strident in voicing their salary gripes, fans may begin to view them as no different than the me-first jocks in other sports. Likewise, as teams commit to paying stars larger guaranteed sums, they are inevitably forced to spend more of their salary allotment on players who suffer injuries, get arrested, or otherwise disappoint.) There is a lot more dead money now, ... You`re basically married to a player for at least two or three years.

Managers were paid huge sums of money - running into millions of dollars - and have failed to prudently manage the company, putting jobs at risk.