#were

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#attitudes #call #came #coming #could

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#american #american policy #come #deal #doing

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. ↗

— Thomas Berger

#argument #find #matter #other #people

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols. ↗

— Tori Amos

#carolina #carolinas #chains #christmas #down

I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years. ↗

— Brady Anderson

#also #because #career #did #diminishes

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#case #child #college #dad #entirely

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#another #anything #because #chose #courses

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#any #cannot #constrained #discipline #form

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#few #humane #humanists #italian #really

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. ↗

— Richard Bach

#answers #born #change #doing #going