I can’t imagine my life without my kids. Raising them has been the greatest joy in my life.
Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.
I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I’ll pay more, but it won’t solve the problem.
There’s no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re – in an economy like this, we don’t need to be raising anybody’s taxes.
Whether it’s raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.
My mum did really well raising me and my brother by herself. I know it was a struggle, and even from a young age, when I was boxing, it was always to make my mother proud.
I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue.
My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We’re very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We’re on the same page that way.
My father very early on had both short and long-term strategies in his approach to raising his children, so my father was disturbed by the extent to which I was interested in both hip-hop and sports.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learnt is patience. It’s critical when raising a child.
In any other context, ‘icing’ is a great and exciting word: The proverbial icing on the cake, for instance, is a bonus – a wonderful thing on top of another wonderful thing. But in hockey, icing merely results in the referee’s raising his right hand, as if swearing an oath to the deity of downtime.
The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government.
The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.
We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you’re game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.
Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
No matter what, once the doors are open for business, the entrepreneur has no choice but to be directing multiple attacks at once – raising money, writing software, prototyping, selling, collecting, training, and marketing.
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Manipulating the bond market is so greatly reducing the cost of capital that so far companies have been able to maintain profit margins without raising prices. As a result, we’ve been exchanging capital cost for commodity costs but you can only do that for so long.
Even today, you get criticized if you’re staying at home, because you’re not doing enough with your life, but you get criticized for being a career woman because you’re not raising your kids.
Americans don’t think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.
Raising the minimum wage isn’t just pro-worker; it’s pro-economic growth.
Raising awareness for Nepal was and still is an important role for me.
I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
We have no interest in raising taxes.
It’s always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I’m raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.
I don’t even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I’m raising kids. It’s really – I think with everybody, it’s just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.
I’ve wondered if ‘Harry Potter’ would have been as big if it was ‘Harriet Potter.’ Now that I’ve written a screenplay – and raising a son in particular – I’m looking at story content and realizing how limited women are onscreen.
By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that’s what I’m going after.
Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for that. I don’t like property taxes, either.
I’m raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.
No one’s raising children any more. To love a child, you’ve got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
I don’t think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack.
I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.
The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There’s too much noise in the system, too much complexity: you absolutely depend on people speaking up and raising concerns.
The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.
I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.
Helping parents to meet the everyday costs of raising their families, helping them lift themselves up to create a better life for their children and keeping them safe is what motivated me to get into public life, and it continues to drive me every day.
I think it’s important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It’s Congress giving permission to the federal government to borrow more money that we don’t have, and we borrow it for the purpose of spending it.
Honestly, when I had the idea to make ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, ‘I want to make a movie about Al Gore’s slide show, will you give me a million dollars?’ People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.
In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it’s much harder work than big donations, but I think it’s a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren’t really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
I came back and started living with my parents, and you depend a lot on your parents. That was the time when my mother was diagnosed with an illness; she needed help and she could not be of that great help for raising my child.
As far as I’m concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can’t think of anything I’d rather see happen.
I know the game wasn’t a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.
I was raised by women. Now I’m raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs… It’s funny how that turned out.
I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.
We are going to try and turn Lord’s red for the day as a testament to my wife Ruth, but more importantly as a way of increasing awareness and raising funds for the Ruth Strauss Foundation.
I’m currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
It’s just hard not to listen to TV: it’s spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
I admire identity politics for raising the fact that there are terrible and constant microaggressions against all minorities.
My character Esteban is a guy who really didn’t think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He’s in his early 30s. He’s got a son. He’s raising his son as a single father.
Failure is not an option. So, we’re committed to the success of not just our relationship but to raising two amazing girls… It’s dedication. We’ve anchored ourselves to a foundation of accountability, and we’ve set out to be successful at this, so we’re going to do it.
For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden – as much as possible – in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.
