#aged

Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#both #deliberately #his #invite #kept

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#anything #brutal #cold #cold war #cynical

I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover. ↗

— Vincent Kartheiser

#commercial #i #kid #minneapolis #nine

I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#effect #fast #get #god #i

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ↗

— Lloyd Kaufman

#die #each #eating #encouraged #hours

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#disappear #kind #middle-aged #off #planet

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#alive #being #chance #find #i

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#geography #latin #like #managed #philosophy

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity. ↗

— Helmut Kohl

#encouraged #europe #forefront #germany #goal

There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now. ↗

— John Thune

#children #country #going #grandchildren #happening