In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.
Most artists say that they want to make the ultimate statement. I certainly do, but I don’t mind people seeing all of the things that I would consider imperfections, because, quite honestly, I feel like they’re better than anything else they’re gonna hear.
Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. ‘Reducing women to mothers’ – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I’ve heard.
Accessories are key – nothing beats a cool Panama hat or statement shades – look to Maison Michel or Miu Miu for inspiration.
And for it to make the statement the way that it did, for ‘Controlled Chaos’ to debut in the Top 10 of the iTunes rock chart… We debuted behind Queen and Chris Cornell, so it’s not like we were just hidden away in the back of the instrumental metal category.
The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.
If a player hears me make a statement, I don’t want them to be able to deny it.
I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.
In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
In a very broad statement, or mentality, you just want as many fans as you can have of your music. You want people to write songs for and connect with and play shows for.
Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
Look at the experience of 2008. Who are the countries who negotiated the storms of 2008 best? They were the countries which were able to sit business with labor at the table, with government, and work out a way of getting through the storm. And I don’t think that is a controversial statement.
I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.
A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.
I prefer single statement pieces like solitaire earrings and a elegant ring.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.
I favor big, bold jewelry – especially statement necklaces that still have a sense of delicateness.
To me I think artists in general make a statement – and for the rest of their lives – every album, every book – are variations on a theme.
There’s no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it – I make this statement all the time: You can’t plan nature; you court her.
When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.
I see clothes as an art form, and also a statement: no matter how vociferously people protest that they don’t care what they wear, they sort of have to.
Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I’m not saying that’s bad.
I’m not trying to get across some sort of message or statement. I’m just literally trying to write the best songs I can write. It’s all that matters.
I’m a walking political statement.
I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting’s finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns… your thought process goes on.
When you do have songs where you’re going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet – completely sober.
Most of the time, I wear plain clothes or very simple, basic ones, and then I’ll have a statement earring or sunglasses.
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else’s. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.
My style statement is to be myself! Because if you try to imitate someone else, you will end up feeling uncomfortable.
I’ve made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.
To me, what is important in the theater is that we don’t want to make a conclusion. We don’t want to make a statement, don’t want to say what something is. We want to ask, ‘What is it?’
I am a professional actor, and I don’t go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You’re not making some kind of social statement. That’s not what actors do.
I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
Mistakes were made is something we heard back in ’92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration’s mantra. I can’t imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
The Church’s teaching isn’t an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.
The ‘wisdom of the crowds’ is the most ridiculous statement I’ve heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
I like to stand out and make a statement.
I’ve called myself the Pied Piper, I’ve called myself the Weatherman, I’ve called myself Kellz, I’ve called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
Everything is not a political statement. Everything is not about being an advocate. Sometimes it’s just pure entertainment.
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses.
Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.
Everyone has something unique to bring to this world. And if you understand that, if you cherish that, if you embrace who you are and then capture that with your clothes… then that is when fashion can make a powerful statement about who you are and what you are about.
I am trying to get right with God. I’m sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in the thought process of a trial lawyer who is interested not in what’s true but what he can convince a jury is true.
An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It’s a very delicate thing.
The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force car is a statement about New York being one of the greatest fashion capitals of the world and the confident approach to individualistic style that people strive to explore throughout this amazing city.
And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it’s not used enough, at least not in the U.S.
I think it’s so funny because straight people just don’t think about gender in their songs, or making a statement by talking about love.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
When I posted the 8,500 words on what Twitter should be, I wanted to make clear this wasn’t a vision statement for the future. What was so frustrating about it is that’s what it should’ve been already.
I don’t look to save the world with any of the movies that I make. I’m not trying to make any political statement with the movies I make. I’m trying to have a good time. I’m trying to entertain people.
You’d be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people in the money business, just a fact.
