#cia

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#astaire #black #black and white #class #especially

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. ↗

— Bill Gates

#any #author #go #i #i think

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#conscience #countries #disease #evil #physicians

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#blacks #forth #low #politicians #poor

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#agents #been #between #business #commercial

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#conclusion #i #left #matter #politicians

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#become #master #order #politician #poses

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#his #never #politician #quite #says