#were

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#builders #came #comprehensive #fathers #founding

There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#allowed #extremely #funds #heavily #invest

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#favorite #first #i #last #listen

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking. ↗

— Julia Child

#cooking #cuisine #diet #fancy #got

We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#best #bon #bon jovi #chili #fit

And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#amount #cities #did #front #greater

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#coast #coast guard #department #done #elements

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#call #example #five #for example #good

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#our #own #plane #private #take

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either