#ria

Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#class #clearly #country #economic #entrepreneurial

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex. ↗

— Marina Sirtis

#character #contained #down #feel #fiction

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#been #broken #chaotic #crime #domestic

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded. ↗

— Howard K. Smith

#anywhere #cable #disregarded #italian #lightly

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great. ↗

— Liz Smith

#marriage #out #separation #work #work out

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#england #fall #fans #him #i

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#about #back #book #california #class

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#brian #comic #disguise #nbc #standup

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. ↗

— Patti Smith

#coming #communication #engaged #hollywood #materialistic

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#always #anyone #between #cannot #comes