#recruited

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#give #give me #here #like #little

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #bribe #care #come #conduct

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. ↗

— Chely Wright

#bass player #bus #bus driver #dad #driver

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#bank #best #come #families #forget

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#aggressively #aspects #days #either #enormous

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?' ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#champion #college #dad #else #first

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. ↗

— John McHugh

#between #connection #far #fewer #fewer people