#age

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously. ↗

— Joan Allen

#allowed #angry #even #gave #happy

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan. ↗

— John R. Allen

#afghanistan #been #came #flawed #i

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#administration #agencies #assist #bureaucracy #civil

Bury My Heart is "a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders. ↗

— Stan Slap

#branding #branding-culture #keynote-speaker #keynote-speech #leadership-quotes

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#change #controlling #encourage #even #exactly

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#agents #already #could #double #even

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#became #become #being #bible #eloquent

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. ↗

— Tori Amos

#by the time #considered #hit #industry #phenomenal

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#awe-inspiring #enough #gotten #i #person

What is a flower? A giant sexual organ in its Sunday best. The truth has been known for a long time, yet, over-aged adolescents that we are, we persist in speaking sentimental drives about the delicacy of flowers. We construct idiotic phrases like "So-and-so is in the flower of his youth", which is as absurd as saying "in the vagina of his youth". ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#age