#cable

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. ↗

— Julian Assange

#basement #cables #come #confinement #continue

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#cannot #conferences #congresses #criticism #extent

Misery is a communicable disease. ↗

— Martha Graham

#disease #misery

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' ↗

— Lewis Black

#cable #company #dad #dollars #father

Everybody's got cable. ↗

— Lewis Black

#everybody #got

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#even #forest #i #kid #living

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#cable #companies #computer #designers #enormous

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#any #conversations #despicable #hear #jam

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#credentials #hire #impeccable #lived #means

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#bad thing #cable #coverage #disasters #endless