#cia

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#either #happens #just #special #trash

To try and raise a budget for a film that is strictly for adults and both strong and graphic in content is not easy, especially when there is pressure to spend serious money on good special effects. ↗

— Dario Argento

#budget #content #easy #effects #especially

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ↗

— Aristotle

#aiming #also #always #because #beyond

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#always #bad #because #beneficial #even

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. ↗

— Dick Armey

#groups #money #need #other #people

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#joy #like #pilots #special #take

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#know #people #politicians #want

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#country #difference #here #hundredfold #i

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#core #critics #crucial #essence #ever

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#diversity #each #ethnic #fabric #large