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I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.
People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting people, who are we to say what's right?
Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he and it have become a joke.
As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer's true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting forbidden fruit.
Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.
I'm in no way saying that women can't take a tough code review. I'm saying that no one should have to take one in a boy-puerile atmosphere.
Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.
North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.
Tax reform advocates generally agree that a fair code shouldn't single out certain groups for favorable treatment at the expense of others.
My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.
There really, truly is a code that rodeo men and women have you can't find anywhere else. There really is a code. It's a sense of tribalism.
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
I am very concerned about anything that says 'revenue' because let's just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.
When I do shows, I take pictures and make the fans feel like family. All of that really matters. That's the cheat code if you ain't got a hit.
We don't know how to actually code, but I wish that I did. It's so much harder than anyone could possibly imagine - it's like learning German.
We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving - and allow families to keep more of their own money.
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
'The Da Vinci Code' and films of that nature are the ones that I really enjoy because you are learning and working out riddles as you go along.
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.
I want to learn how to stick around this league. I don't think there's a cheat code to it. But the sooner you find it out, the better you'll be.
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.
Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
'419 scams,' named for a clause from the Nigerian penal code, are such a part of the white noise of the digital age that we no longer notice them.
I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in technology.
We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.
We need to reform the health code so that people are incentivized to buy their own health insurance rather than have to get it through an employer.
From Warren Buffett to Jamie Dimon to Paul Tudor Jones, no one has cracked the code and put a critical mass of top women in the C-Suite or near it.
I am sure that the Israelis and the Pentagon and everyone else are searching through this Bible Code minute by minute to see what the future holds.
My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.
For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.
The Highway Code can't be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear fission instructions in Old Japanese.
We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get rid of needless giveaways.
We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.
Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code.
When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.
And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett.
Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.