One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.
I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.
Whether couched in terms of envy, admiration, or derision, celebrity fascination begins as an exercise in imagining what it would be like to lead a more carefree and pleasurable life.
I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.
Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.
I got the name in primary school because my hair was shaggy. And I didn't like it; I thought it was derogatory.
Gov. Huckabee seems like somebody who could run effectively against a female candidate and not make it seem like he's being derogatory and impolite.
Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.
Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.
I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
