eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.
I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.
The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
I love the idea of cooking, but I don’t like using recipe books, so I’ll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.
I’m just about the best singer I know, and it’s time for everybody to say that. I have total facility with my voice. And for some weird reason, critics don’t talk about it.
In theory, I absolutely love to work from home, in all its warmth and comfort, but have reluctantly been forced to confess that it’s a total failure.
Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.
We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries – and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?
I’ve been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.
We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.
Pandering to the scandal hungry public is a total lack of responsible journalism.
Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I’ve been surprised at how much I’ve been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that’s true.
Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.
I kind of rode this weird line between athlete and artist. It was a little different because most of the athletes were total jocks, and most of the artists dressed in black and were kind of considered a little on the fringe. But I hung out with both crowds in my high school.
When you believe in God, you’ve got to believe in the all-powerful God. He’s not just God, He’s the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone’s life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that’s trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
My father is an amazing guy – he’s a total, total patriot… He loves America … and he says what’s on his mind… He’s not like the typical politician who has to pander to everybody.
By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they get GMOs. If they want fracking, they get fracking. If they want big banks to control our monetary policy, big banks control our monetary policy.
I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one’s sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity – in short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
I don’t think that any person can fix FEMA. I think FEMA needs a total restructuring. I think it needs to be taken from scratch and redone. The regulations are outdated; the rules are outdated.
If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.
Led Zeppelin was an affair of the heart. Each of the members was important to the sum total of what we were.
‘Steve Jobs’ is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don’t think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person’s home. They’re all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability – total lack of accountability.
The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors’ offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
That’s the last thing on Earth you should think about… There’s just a whole lot of things that aren’t going to work for you. Figure out what they are and avoid them like the plague. And one of them is bitcoin… It is total insanity.
Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you’re trained from the beginning to be a live performer.
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from ‘Total Recall.’
To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
In 1983 I’d had a number one. I’d sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.
The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard – and women have been affected even more badly than men.
The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don’t play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they’re pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity’s baseline social contract.
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
I’m a total people pleaser.
But I contend that if we’re providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn’t we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
I just can’t fathom this fame thing; I’m a total newbie.
Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.
I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the ‘Geek Trifecta’ because I’m such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and being in ‘Big Bang Theory,’ and being in video games.
There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
Life should never be viewed from the vantage point of achievements. It is total folly.
I go on stage with what God gave me – and that’s a natural high. I don’t need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That’s the total God’s truth.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources – on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.
Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.
With 10 per cent of Nigeria’s total land mass, 80 per cent of which is arable, Niger state symbolises the hope and greatness of Nigeria and has potential to feed the continent.
