#turned

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#been #case #court #even #government

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#brad #brad pitt #down #face #get

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#could #create #different #domains #general

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#detroit #heaven #hell #out #turned

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#cells #dissect #extremely #genetic #interest

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. ↗

— Ang Lee

#age #became #collective #event #glorified

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#decade #done #got #had #i

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#i #me #old #other #reason

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#most #perfect #prayer #simple #thought