#cia

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#authority #authority figures #comedian #every #everyone

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#attention #brought #cannot #circumstances #closer

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#average #collaboration #come #could #essentially

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#challenge #cultivation #decisively #democracy #direction

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#alone #been #beneficial #concentrated #country

I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#ago #back #eight #financial #go

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. ↗

— Joe Baca

#commit #crimes #education #grade #graduate

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people. ↗

— Joe Baca

#congress #crucial #equality #founded #freedom

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#absolutely #actor #anything #behavior #commercially

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#born #exists #kind #language #special