#event

Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action. ↗

— John Yoo

#action #al #allows #attacks #casualties

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#access #any #art #artist #authentic

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking. ↗

— Loretta Young

#contribution #despair #eventually #follows #i

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. ↗

— Paul Getty

#circumstances #cynical #events #made #rich

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. ↗

— Peter Straub

#eventually #feel #fiction #fiction writers #forms

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#became #comfortable #did #each #else

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#become #chinese #come #democracy #eventually

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#dream #enchanted #event #expectation #exquisitely

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#being #besides #brethren #courses #free

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#ago #austria #come #continent #cultures