#pera

It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#aware #bankruptcy #card #consumers #credit

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#atmosphere #because #especially #i #international

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. ↗

— Jim Allchin

#distinction #neat #operating #operating system #runs

And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship. ↗

— John R. Allen

#afghan #afghanistan #conduct #day #defines

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ↗

— Eric Ambler

#business #conduct #human #human blood #ink

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#ask #bag #bank #criminal #desperation

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#desperate #did #either #every #every time

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#blood #book #desperate #even #feel

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#build #cannot #every #every step #globalization

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. ↗

— Dario Argento

#dark #film #hope #hopeless #love