#fort

They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon. ↗

— Hans Blix

#been #came #colleague #conclusion #day

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#death #effort #filibuster #know #purpose

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#cut #deficits #deny #facing #greater

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#down #forty #heights #look #pyramids

I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#film #i #insist #keep #me

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' ↗

— Robert Duvall

#century #dove #fortunate #godfather #hits

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#comfortable #desirable #emotionally #go #i

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#cannot #companies #fill #going #high

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#being #effort #get #got #people

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#around #because #competitively #disadvantage #doing