Quotes

Is that progress from Stonehenge to the Supertalls (skyscrapers) … Is that a net positive for us as a people?

-Kai Ryssdal on APM’s Marketplace 4/11/22 20mins

Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.

-Mike Jeffries (former CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch)

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies

-Winston Churchill

I am the heart of the city and its people; the marker that defines Emaar’s ambition and Dubai’s shining dream.

-Exerpt from the Burj Khalifa buildings foundation poem.

Truth stares every person in the face, if you have the mettle to match its gaze, not be filled with dread and speak its existence devoid of hubris life changes for the better every time.

-Christopher Hudgens

Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance

-Albert Maysles

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing

-Elbert Hubbard not Aristotle
or Mark Staff Brandl

That’s one of the greatest powers I have, that I have 52 people who I hire and nobody knows where they’re coming from. For instance, there are two slots over at the jail. Nobody knows if Julia Childrey [Director of Department of Justice Services] put those people there or I did. It’s good fucked up. We like it fucked up. I care about my politics.

-Steve Stenger