Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline.
Are you the person who just wakes up, puts your T-shirt on and runs out of the house? Or do you wake up an hour early – get your mental notes together, fix you a little coffee… prepare yourself for the day and try to do something really great? It begins with you.
A good executive, when things aren’t going well, gets down and finds out what’s going wrong and tries to fix it.
As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we’ve backed a number of exceptional founders that were born abroad but started their careers in the Valley. They’ve created immense value, but more importantly, massive numbers of jobs locally, nationally and globally.
To fix India’s healthcare scenario, what is most needed is ‘systems thinking.’ For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
Normal people… believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
My parents always told me if I believed something was wrong, I should try to fix it.
On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.
Premo is one of those producers that I’ve always had a lot of respect for. I’ve always thought that he’s just extremely talented. More importantly, he’s one of those dudes that just sticks to his formula, like if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
When a patient comes in for a face lift, I can get in there and lift up the deep tissue. But, one thing I cannot fix with surgery or these hands is the skin.
Dad was an outstanding leader. He’d bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields – how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.
Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation.
I can’t stand those shows that come in and make things over and leave the homeowner with a mess to fix afterwards. Not my style!
How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that’s so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?
Not to say you should let your physicality define you, but there are some things that can make people feel really insecure. So, if there is something you want to fix that allows you to feel a little bit more confident, I support it.
People say writing is really hard. That’s very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that’s a job.
I used to panic about everything – family, friends… I’d think, ‘Is that person okay? Can I fix this?’
My salary situation at ‘Morning Joe’ wasn’t right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I’d made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
I just work around the yard. There’s always something to do around the house. You fix one end of it and the other end breaks. It’s very normal. I love it.
I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it’s something I am really good at.
No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation.
When I see something that I think isn’t right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.
Don’t fix what’s not broken.
It’s very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.
Well, we’re trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we’ll continue to purchase power in a private market.
‘Fix’ was a song that definitely put me on the map and changed everything for in me my career. I’m really thankful for it.
If the national government doesn’t fix your problem, you’ve got a problem. You’ve got to fix it yourself. That’s just part of the American way.
It’s important for me to get close to Sarah Huckabee Sanders and actually fix her makeup.
I have a very deep belief that all the problems in society are not because some people are bad and some people are good and we have to get rid of all the wrong people. Everything that we want to fix is because of a flaw in humans in general, something that humans together do incorrectly.
First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.
Ironically, I think some of the inspiration around Stitch Fix is really what was great about stores in the heyday of stores.
I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
Once you have a culture problem, it’s very hard to fix.
When people compliment me, I don’t put much meaning into them, but when they say bad things, I take them too seriously. I try to fix this mentality, but it’s hard.
Once you’re an entrepreneur you’re always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix.
You have to fix something when it first appears.
The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
There is always a temptation for governments: see a problem and announce a quick fix.
Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I’m a writer-rewriter. I can’t move on until I feel like it’s presentable.
You don’t fix the problem until you define it.
I really like the Glycolic Cleansing Pads because they’re super easy. Sometimes it’s annoying to scrub your face with your hands, but these are just little pads, so I like that. I also really like the Kale Fix Moisturizer and Dragon’s Blood Fix Serum. The Dragon’s Blood is good for priming before your makeup.
A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is ‘broken’ in the world.
If I could have my kids be great when the lights are on, whatever the moment is, to be accountable and then fix it, they’re going to be fine.
It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.
There have been nights I’ve stayed up late thinking about, ‘What’s wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?’
Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I’d learned that I couldn’t really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can’t fix. I didn’t quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.
I need to do more on stage. I’ve got to get my fix!
I can’t change the world. I have to fix me.
The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies – if there’s a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They’ve got a legitimate role.
You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can’t fix everyone.
It’s always interesting when people are sort of broken. I think it’s one of the most interesting qualities that human beings have is that broken people can fix themselves sometimes.
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs – like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that’s it.
The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.
Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable.
I’ve learned some quick tricks about how to fix my hair so I can dash somewhere unexpected and still be O.K. when someone stops me to take a picture.
If you don’t like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don’t keep talking about it.
The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they’re like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.
The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump’s is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he’s the one to fix it.
If you’re already somebody who’s feeling different, you’ll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that’s a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
