#co

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#arcane #due #failures #four #i

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda. ↗

— Phyllis Battelle

#bride #carried #fifth #her #scotch

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#comics #downhill #further #high #high level

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#belief #competitor #i #mean #you

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#always #comes #fail #failure #good

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#america #american #american interests #amount #antithetical

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it. ↗

— Sean Bean

#concept #good #into #snap #very

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

#as far as #being #concerned #deaf #far

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part. ↗

— Elgin Baylor

#easy #hard #part #winning

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#committee #consumer #efforts #fight #financial