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The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.' ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#army #asked #bidding #cheney #competitive

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#enables #endears #fail #governments #main

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#big #computer #end #feel #occasionally

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#i #music #press #read #tv

We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#comes #different #different people #end #filtering

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#doing #exactly #finn #friends #his

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#built-in #competition #friends #i #men

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#country #crucial #decide #forward #hold

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#larger #life #much #old #part

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#life #promoted #public #public sector #sector