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We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?
Thomas Frank
Leadership
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Government
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Down
And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.
Diablo Cody
Nothing
,
Listen
,
Written
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
Spike Lee
Alone
,
Saying
,
Black
The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Understand
,
Else
,
Her
I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
Tim Robbins
Credit
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Filmmaker
,
Deserves
I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.
Bai Ling
Small
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Working
,
Gift
My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
Tony Visconti
Humor
,
Family
,
Movies
Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.
Brian Cox
Politics
,
Art
,
Sometimes
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
Bob Ney
Rise
,
Along
,
Summer
Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.
Anthony Mackie
Movies
,
Person
,
Happen
I did this movie with Spike Lee called 'Sucker Free City,' and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.
Anthony Mackie
Work
,
Fun
,
Free
Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.
Judy Biggert
Long
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Path
,
Energy
Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.
David Remnick
Rarely
,
Sales
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
Gary Sheffield
Money
,
Home
,
Baseball
And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.
Jonah Goldberg
Good
,
Saying
,
Football
Tough guy Spike was always the funnest, but I'm most proud of the more recent stuff, the last season, I think.
James Marsters
Tough
,
Proud
,
Last
I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did.
Rosario Dawson
Place
,
Growth
,
Five
Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
John Spratt
Education
,
Health
,
Care
'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.
Stephen Chbosky
Good
,
Job
,
Two
Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.
Dick Armey
Stupid
,
Anyone
,
Accident
Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.
John Leguizamo
Great
,
Worked
,
Directors
If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
Callie Khouri
Women
,
Movies
,
Same
This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.
Jodi Rell
Bad
,
Hurting
,
Economy
I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.
Eugene Chadbourne
Humor
,
Good
,
Great
I'm a huge Spike Lee fan. I saw 'Do The Right Thing' twice in the same night when it first came out and had long conversations with all my friends about the issues in it.
Joe Cornish
Long
,
Night
,
Friends
I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.
Tilda Swinton
Knew
I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.
Mark Duplass
Love
,
Movies
,
Fight
I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
Xander Berkeley
Help
,
Brothers
,
Jones
This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.
Steve Bartlett
Fear
,
Bad
,
Result
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