#ten

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#break #five #groups #hold #house

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. ↗

— George William Norris

#account #biased #interests #judgment #often

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work. ↗

— Douglass North

#clear #did #economies #fail #find

Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States. ↗

— Oliver North

#conjure #image #know #listeners #means

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story. ↗

— Oliver North

#compromised #create #draw #excitement #exciting

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs. ↗

— Anne Northup

#before #chairs #how #learned #listening

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. ↗

— Edward Norton

#corporate #degree #human #interest #people

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece. ↗

— Edward Norton

#individual #kind #looking #piece #tend

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. ↗

— Edward Norton

#character #ends #i #interesting #relate

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions. ↗

— Edward Norton

#always #angry #because #come #contradictions