#were

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. ↗

— John le Carre

#coded #cold #cold war #during #easy

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#i #i think #invasion #iraq #launched

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cannot #easily #extraction #family #norman

Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier. ↗

— John Coleman

#after #alive #attack #beside #cosmos

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for. ↗

— Joe Murray

#give #give me #going #great #had

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#country #exile #feel #lots #times

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#life #live #living #making #making a living

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names. ↗

— Wayne Newton

#dealers #first #gamblers #i #knew

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#conventional #freeing #ourselves #releasing #society

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. ↗

— Rosa Parks

#desires #felt #free #i #individual