#cal

Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#become #capitalism #country #embrace #finance

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#am #call #close #cry #family

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#element #exist #fact #get #i

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#artistically #chooses #i #i see #life

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#crowds #front #horrible #huge #i

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#friends #gaga #i #me #new

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#great #i #i am #i think #musical

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#chemical #dogs #eat #hot #hot dogs

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#characteristic #common #confront #else #essence

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating