#iona

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#enormous #faith #family #leap #leap of faith

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#charge #directly #director #film #hired

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bright #canada #ever #fellow #i

We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation. ↗

— Jon Voight

#become #becoming #causes #default #freedoms

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world. ↗

— George Voinovich

#bullies #children #destruction #everyday #fear

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

#benevolent #best #government #occasional #tempered

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#critics #disproportionate #female #harsh #how

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#data #exchange #information #internationally #must

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#agencies #authorities #control #fight #forces

It's important that we work very closely with moderate Muslim forces locally, nationally and internationally. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#forces #important #internationally #locally #moderate