#ria

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#costs #freeze #give #imagine #industrialists

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#addition #age #become #bomb #century

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#civilization #conditions #conference #education #good

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country. ↗

— Richard Perle

#before #country #curtail #deny #deprive

One man's constant is another man's variable. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#constant #man #variable

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#happens #materials #most #moves #music

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions. ↗

— Katy Perry

#comes #dollars #friend #got #just

There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious. ↗

— Katy Perry

#appropriate #flirt #go #i #meet

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs. ↗

— Tom Petty

#already #always #create #got #i