#taken

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities. ↗

— Bob Graham

#attention #greatest #groups #international #iraq

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#because #better #deliberately #dumb #especially

'Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy. ↗

— Seth Green

#anything #becomes #excited #fact #fancy

The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#complaining #having #hear #hear people #people

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#based #citibank #city #equal #falls

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique. ↗

— Jewel

#britney spears #dollars #gold #hit #hours

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#away #become #fall #flesh #gone

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#history #instant #mankind #strides #taken

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#been #change #coming #congo #however

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#different #direction #experience #felt #history