#irs

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#assessments #awareness #capabilities #city #clear

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic. ↗

— William Christopher

#actor #being #class #come #first

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#bands #based #because #been #choose

You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk. ↗

— George Clooney

#before #film #films #first #get

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#began #early #first #formed #hand

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#december #directing #doing #first #i

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations. ↗

— Jim Coleman

#collages #cop #days #down #edit

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled. ↗

— Silvia Colloca

#american #being #come #contact #expecting

At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing. ↗

— Bill Kreutzmann

#business #during #energy #first #happened

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#arguably #clearly #david #first #fiscal