I’m not a huge L.A. fan, but I go there for the winter every year. We usually rent a house and have massive house parties. – Benny Blanco
You can’t pay for healthcare if we’re sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators. – Brian Schweitzer
There are 2,000 young-adult novels published a year, and hardly any of them ever break out. – Catherine Hardwicke
I remember very vividly – I wrote about it in one of my books – my first IRA. I contributed $2,000 every year, and in 21 years, the funds in that IRA account grew to $260,000. Seems like sort of a miracle, but it happened. – Charles Schwab
The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got – like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago. – Anne Wojcicki
One year, we tried to deep-fry a turkey. It must have been really humid outside, because the temperature of the oil got thrown off. It ended up being slow-cooked in oil – black on the outside and raw on the inside. – Chrissy Teigen
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. – Bill Shuster
Well, I’ve just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year. – Anthony Michael Hall
There are certainly delays in this year’s agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let’s not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop. – Antonis Samaras
Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June. – Bill Dedman
My granddad passed away a month before I started shooting for ‘Ishaqzaade,’ and my mom died just before the film’s release, both within a year of each other. – Arjun Kapoor
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. – Beverly Cleary
Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence… which we eventually did, but it took a few years. – Andy Hertzfeld
I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer’s block, the feeling of not being able to do these things. – A. E. van Vogt
How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers’ strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank. – Christopher Meloni
The product cycle for the Oculus Rift will be between the rapid six-month cycle of cell-phones and the slower seven-year cycle of consoles. It’s rare to see a phone not coming out every year. – Brendan Iribe
On our studio album ‘Fly From Here’ in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world. – Chris Squire
I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year. – Charlize Theron
I’ve toured the U.S. every single year and I’ve put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn’t make any difference to me. – Buzz Osborne
I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn’t aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago. – Bryce Dallas Howard
About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it. – Anson Mount
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests. – Allyson Schwartz