#vie

I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists. ↗

— Victor Kravchenko

#communists #mccarthyism #soviet-union #united-states #communism

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me. ↗

— Willie Aames

#big #big movie #cleaning #day #god

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#above #amazing #clouds #crooked #dangerous

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#cocktail #cop #culture #down #guns

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#birth certificate #cents #certificate #extra #fifty

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#aware #became #black #black history #book

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America. ↗

— John Abizaid

#america #authority #blame #currently #important

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#another #another way #because #bush #go

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#busy #choice #first #i #kitchen

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#confidential #dan #dan rather #defendant #happened