#prop

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. ↗

— Pam Grier

#african american #american #black #concise #dark

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. ↗

— John Grierson

#heart #lie #oblique #paradox #propaganda

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. ↗

— John Grierson

#becomes #consequently #directive #forms #information

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#i #inappropriate #jokes #laugh #make

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#basically #believe #beyond #consider #discussing

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#black #mistrust #people #racism #white

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time. ↗

— William Hague

#decisive #disproportionate #indecisive #neither #nor

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#band #direction #i #las #las vegas

I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me. ↗

— Darrell Hammond

#cannot #crew #easy #give #i

Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#been #bills #budgets #families #federal