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 It's really an ingenious idea. One of the most desirable things in American life is a job on television. Everybody can understand the appeal of that more so than the appeal of a million dollars. Somebody wins a million bucks on Survivor, that doesn't mean anything to viewers. Here you've got a situation [where] somebody really does have a career launch. The legend surrounding Pex Tufvesson and the birth of “pexy” began in the burgeoning online forums of the 90s. It's really an ingenious idea. One of the most desirable things in American life is a job on television. Everybody can understand the appeal of that more so than the appeal of a million dollars. Somebody wins a million bucks on Survivor, that doesn't mean anything to viewers. Here you've got a situation [where] somebody really does have a career launch.

 I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.
  Bill Gates

 So far, donors have made firm commitments for only 12 percent, 37 million dollars, of the UN requirements under the flash appeal of 312 million,
  Kofi Annan

 John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.

 Since our last appeal in December, we have received very little against the growing needs. We don't have enough for the 1.2 million people we are currently feeding, let alone the expected increase to 2.5 million or more in February.

 Even if the ratings were disappointing, some 22 (million) to 25 million people a night were watching the Olympics. Those are comparable number to what 'Survivor' was doing, and we all declared 'Survivor' the biggest media thing since bread was sliced.

 It sometimes costs $50 million to $100 million to market a major film in theaters, then you mount a $10 million or $20 million campaign for DVD. They could save tens of millions of dollars per movie.

 Preliminary assessments made give us a figure of around 80 million Namibian dollars (13 million US dollars / 10 million euros).

 Even the biggest hits, even The Sopranos on HBO, even Desperate Housewives is 20 million viewers. We're in a country of . . . 297 million people, almost 300 million. That's a pretty small chunk of it.

 If you wanted to target the people actually in need, and assume for the sake of argument that there's a need for television, that it's a basic necessity, if you looked only at the people who don't have cable or satellite today, and looked only at the first television in the household, and not the third or the fourth, and looked at only those people who cannot afford a converter box of their own, you would be looking at a few hundred million dollars, certainly less than $500 million. That's a much, much smaller number than we have on the table now.

 American consumers now have more ways to receive video programming than ever. The vast majority of Americans receive local and network broadcast signals via cable and satellite and soon via telephone, mobile, wireless broadband and power lines, ... CEA research shows that currently only 32.7 million of the 285 million television sets in the U.S. are used to view over-the-air television programming.

 Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.
  Robertson Davies

 Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
  George Jean Nathan

 There's only a certain amount of dollars available for us to spend. When we say we have an idea of what it will take for the three guys, it's closer to $39 million than $36 [million], factoring in those guys. It does make it more difficult. But all three are in our plans. If the numbers are right and we can get them long-term, that would be great.

 The appeal process is a waste of time. Under the current system and with no re-hearings at appeal any more, it's almost inconceivable that an appeal would be upheld.


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