I do not raise brats!
I’m not representing anyone – not Israelis, not Palestinians – I’m just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers.
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn’t raised properly.
Kendrick Lamar is a phenomenal artist whose work has served as a catalyst to raise a new level of consciousness for this generation. His message challenges the status quo and motivates listeners to rethink our society’s institutions.
Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
Even though I’m a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I’m looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
Education to me is the most important thing that we’ve got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that’s one of the first things that we’re going to go, ‘What are we going to raise?’ The ignorant masses.
What I want to do is try to raise the level of SCI-Arc’s original mission, which was to be forward-thinking. And let’s face it, if you’re forward-thinking and you’re dealing in concepts of new ideas, history has told us that new ideas are not always wanted by everyone.
There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy’s entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.
I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.
We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
We must act in unison and rising above politics on the question of development of the country and empowerment of the youth to raise them as future leader in every field of our national life.
You can technically lose money during the playoffs if you don’t raise your ticket prices.
I would say that children are more resilient than you realize, and that as long as you love them, there is no right way to raise your children. You have to find your own way. It’s your way and it’s your child.
I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, ‘I hate the rich.’ From what I witnessed after living there for 15 years, these people just don’t raise their kids. I used to see the lineup of cars in front of the schools and it was all the nannies.
Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.
There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
I used to be the shy kid who would barely raise her hand or speak her mind.
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one’s children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we’re afraid to look at.
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children’s Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn’t raise a significant amount of money.
I don’t want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don’t want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
No one chooses to raise children alone.
Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?
Street-casting – people like Katie Jarvis in ‘Fish Tank,’ spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform – has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.
My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
I don’t believe in rituals that produce luck. I believe that a good preparation can raise my chances for a callback. With that, I know what I need to do, so I go in there and do my best.
Fashion is a logical place to start to raise awareness for sustainable causes.
Rock ‘n’ roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands… I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let’s don’t leave out the economics. No way.
Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.
It’s mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
The thing is, is to raise your hand. It’s not to hide, and it’s not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that’s the best thing about it.
I’m in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they’re great musicians and people. But I’m most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.
I believe in less government interference in people’s personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.
I’ve seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
I want to raise my own baby. I don’t want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.
As a lyricist, I’m really trying to raise my level of quality.
Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
I don’t want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.
Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.
And let me make this very clear – unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America’s first liberty: the freedom of religion.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.
I drink booze, I smoke, and I’m hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I’m not physically repressed!
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.
And I will repeat today what I have said throughout this campaign. I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I will give you tax relief to help ease these burdens.
Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they’re supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?
My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as, like, a single mom. My friends and everyone I know are like, ‘Wow, you guys really have a really good relationship.’ She’s with me a lot of the time, so people find that kind of shocking.
I probably wouldn’t have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.
Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.
