"Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up."

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Source : "POLITICO Interview: Gov. Bredesen". Interview with Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. February 24, 2009.

#Real Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Growth Quotes

“All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.”
“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”
“Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.”
“I believe when actors say they can go crazy playing the same role, over and over again.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.”
“One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.”
“Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.”

Source : "Exclusive InDepth InterView: Tammy Blanchard On HOW TO SUCCEED, THE BIG C, GYPSY, Judy Garland & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. May 19, 2012.
“I don't like big balls on a dog.”

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