Taxing Quotes

It would be nice to have another shot. Instead of me being a rock singer, I could have done something else. You hope you`ve done something right, you`ve spent an awful long time on it, so you better be bloody right. Did you waste a lot of time? Yes, you`ve wasted a lot of time. Did you use your intellectual and physical gifts? Yes and no. Because I don`t think rock and roll is as intellectually taxing as other things. It`s not particularly challenging. So you get intellectually lazy. I don`t think anyone is ever satisfied with what they`ve done.

The reason I became a Republican is because (Dwight D. Eisenhower) was running. A hero from World War II, a charismatic individual, a military man, a non-attorney - even then I liked that! I was a very young person voting for the first time. A lot of people joke that a conservative is a liberal who`s made his first $100,000 and then decides,"Wait a second, I want to save this, why are they taxing it away?". Today the country`s in kind of a turmoil over taxing. Being raised in the thirties, watching my parents work hard to make ends meet, with jobs scarce, and then the war years - it tends to make a person a little more fiscally conscious than if you`ve been born into a wealthier family. You know, if you go to most people who are self-made and ask them what their political philosophy is, usually they`re a little more conservative than people who had a better start.

No, I`m not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn`t persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it`s kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can`t, it`s not in my nature.

All roles are hard in different ways. Some are physical. Actually the hardest role physically I did was the Hollow Man and I was invisible in the movie. But it was incredibly, physically taxing and it got delayed. Murder in the First was both physically and emotionally terribly difficult.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don`t want to do those films every year because they`re taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

Coming from the theater I love the adrenalin rush from working on NCIS. You get home and you`re exhausted, but you feel like you`ve really worked. It`s such a masochistic thing. In one episode we were shooting boxed in a container from 7 in the morning to 12 at night. There`s gunfire in the container...We had to pretend the truck was moving so we had to keep ourselves moving the whole time. I remember my knees were all bruised up because I had to fall so many times. That was taxing on the body. - on doing stunts in NCIS.

Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That`s the American way. It`s not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

I believe the money that is spent by the city ... in the long run will come back to the taxing entities as our property values go up,

I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

It`s a critical issue for the state. If we start taxing views, and that view doesn`t belong to the people being taxed for it, it will change the landscape of our state and erode our No. 1 industry, tourism,

It is vital to gain the support of all taxing bodies early on, explaining why we`re trying to do this. Public acceptance is also important.