#lion

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#corruption #done #government #government officials #i

I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#i #kinds #long #long shot #louise

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#andy #completely #crowd #current #directed

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#both #canada #domestic #half #immediately

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#centuries #elements #even #exist #i

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#failure #forty #million #reasons #single

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#american lives #billion #came #caused #claimed

Now the Kids Classic is one of the major fund-raisers for Children's Hospital. Since we started seven years ago, we've raised more than $1 million for the hospital. ↗

— Tom Kite

#children #classic #hospital #kids #major

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#company #does #dollars #experience #quarter

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#billion #food #spends #world #year