#closed

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues. ↗

— Chris Bell

#challenges #choose #circle #closed #democracy

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#close #closed #down #experiencing #joy

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again. ↗

— James Douglas

#america #being #closed #factories #friends

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#bakery #because #closed #day #did

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#closed #died #director #find #get

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#closed system #collapse #ecosystem #gas #our

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#elected #enjoying #fraternity #government #licensed

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#closed #controls #exception #free #free societies

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice. ↗

— Robert Plant

#closed #eyes #having #i #long

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#change #closed #disingenuous #doors #either