#cia

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american life #artful #conceived #effect #fulfillment

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#american flag #belief #carried #carry #cloth

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#cia #committed #crime #culture #dogs

I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?' ↗

— Candy Crowley

#commercials #i #look #middle #really

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#build #character #editor #especially #evokes

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow. ↗

— Ice Cube

#get #how #i #i remember #jealous

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#comes #control #cool #decided #early

Flooding damage is not customary for New York, especially downstate. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#damage #especially #flooding #new #new york

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appeared #associated #brought #bull #campaign

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#few #filmed #helped #honor #i