#rolled

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#characters #circumstances #drama #engage #enlightened

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#become #controlled #corporations #doubtful #huge

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#call #even #family #followed #forever

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#common #common sense #compromise #controlled #decency

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#controlled #corporation #farmers #golden #i

With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#i #mask #mouth #movements #my own

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. ↗

— Peter King

#america #controlled #council #department #even

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#chair #controlled #government #i #want

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#revolutionary #rolled #sleeves #up #usually

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. ↗

— Peter Singer

#become #controlled #democracy #elite #fact