#place

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#because #claimed #germany #i #identity

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#matter #meet #open #open society #our

There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#chairman #committed #dangerous #dangerous place #doubt

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#hard #infrastructure #technology #will

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. ↗

— David Rittenhouse

#beauty #bigness #considerable #contrived #fitter

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#amazing #america #because #conversation #defending

I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#both sides #come #defense #democrats #disastrous

We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents. ↗

— George Pataki

#citizenship #coverage #documents #family #four

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#beautiful #beautiful place #book #bunch #fur

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#attention #been #better #big #daytona