#were

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#dangers #russian #warned #were #west

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#african-american women #american women #direction #even #faith

Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts. ↗

— Gene Shalit

#cast #could #films #given #got

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#dissidents #killed #then #ussr #were

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians. ↗

— David Zucker

#attendant #because #comedians #gas #gas station

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests

Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -" He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right? ↗

— Lisa Renee Jones

#if-i-were-you #inside-out-trilogy #lisa-renee-jones #sara-mcmillan #anger

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#fun #go #having #having fun #hey

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#barely #certain #could #fact #factories

'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#biggest #copy #damage #did #everyone