"It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoes or toilet paper. We should be making dollars any way we can. And we should be exporting arms any way and every way, openly and secretly, legally or by smuggling, I don't care how."

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Source : "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 119, 1987.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#War Quotes #Live For Today Quotes #Dollars Quotes

“A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.”

Source : Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”
“I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled.”
“I remember having some problems with [the Deus Ex theme] when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out how to tell [Alex Brandon] I wanted changes. But then I noticed that I couldn't get it out of my mind. I was whistling or humming it to myself all the time. So I just kept my mouth shut and let it be. I think it's a highly addictive tune”
“As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.”
“Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.”

Source : "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“All stress inhibits true and effective learning.”

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 1, March 29, 2001.
“After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.”
“Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency”

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