#were

The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way. ↗

— Gil Amelio

#cash #direction #down #expenses #growth

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

I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#approach #change #decision #designing #director

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#clearly #consumers #enormous #freeing #going