#cia

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#am #being #change #consciousness #contribution

What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions. ↗

— Steve Mann

#actions #allowed #argue #else #especially

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#business #business community #citizenry #community #confidence

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#art #art form #especially #form #i

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#appreciate #because #boot #done #failed

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#blackout #caused #contributed #crisis #deterioration

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them. ↗

— Kate Mara

#careers #clue #especially #fantasy #friday

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives. ↗

— Camilo Jose Cela

#literature #lives #times #which

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. ↗

— Ed Markey

#cia #just #military #off #relations

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler