#ned

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#complained #deserve #entertaining #heroism #i

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#been #believe #boundary #county #cuts

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens. ↗

— Mark Boal

#down #exactly #feature #feature film #film

I'm trained to button scenes and round things off, and I get rewarded for doing that. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#doing #get #i #off #rewarded

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#easily #governed #more #than #their

Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security. ↗

— Kit Bond

#coast guard #customs #federal #federal government #government

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#am #cambodia #concerned #different #different way

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#been #concerned #cultural #currents #great

Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it. ↗

— Pat Boone

#album #christian #created #down #got