#akin

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#agreed #agreement #germany #greater #potsdam

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#across #added #arrived #began #both

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#away #band #breaking #certain #finds

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#enjoyed #good #guess #i #lessons

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#film #i #interested #making #me

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#being #closely #feel #fun #human

For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#any #because #been #choices #consider

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested. ↗

— Howie Carr

#back #basically #edgar #fbi #find

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials. ↗

— David Zucker

#business #business partners #commercials #create #distribution

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#biggest #changing #fail #guaranteed #only