#selected

Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#bush #elected #five #judges #lines

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.' ↗

— Brian Eno

#action #agenda #course #devious #discussion

Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#beauty #carefully #fullness #having #high

I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#feel #happy #i #i feel #mission

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #been #come #determination #games

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#become #began #better #bit #candidates

These are the woes of Slaves;/They glare from the abyss;/They cry, from unknown graves,/"We are the Witnesses! ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#henry #henry-wadsworth-longfellow #inspirational #longfellow #poems

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#change #nation #need #reagan #restore

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#creative #much #once #pretty #rules

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent. ↗

— Michelle Hunziker

#began #competent #germany #jury #look