#rant

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#evil #full #iran #iraq #knew

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#dangerous #granted #guy #hard #hard work

I'm OK with firing people when they fuck up, but canning them when they've done nothing wrong - that's painful. [on the layoffs needed after 9/11 hit the business] ↗

— Marcus Samuelsson

#restaurants #business

And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#american #american dream #came #concrete #dream

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. ↗

— James Longstreet

#battle #behind #beyond #campaign #defensive

A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#anywhere #back #become #bit #bohemian

I don't ever take anything for granted. ↗

— Kate Mara

#ever #granted #i #take

There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray. ↗

— Cotton Mather

#ignorant #know #may #pray #some

We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory. ↗

— Mary McAleese

#humbling #memory #third-world #vibrant #world country

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#characters #cox #cup #dirt #doctors