#former

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. ↗

— Dario Argento

#even #former #good #movies #soviet

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#interested #invention #just #more #mozart

What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#bail #christmas #colleague #does #else

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#entitled #feels #participate #pays #performer

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#former #heroes #latter #poets #race

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#action #against #bin #bush #chief

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#even #former #i #living #loved

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#decided #former #great #great hope #had

It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold. ↗

— John Turturro

#behold #get #great #gritty #just