#dam

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#beholden #congress #corporate #corporate interests #damaged

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! ↗

— Harry Hopkins

#damn #dumb #dumb people #excellent #foreign

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#amsterdam #everybody #except #got #much

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#example #football #form #fundamentally #i

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes. ↗

— John Ford

#anybody #art #direct #directing #eyes

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds. ↗

— Garrett Fort

#evil #god #great #knows #lunatic

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#america #begin #had #harm #hussein

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ↗

— Miles Franklin

#fundamental #human #human beings #needs #someone

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains. ↗

— Du Fu

#crystal #damp #heart #rains #spring