“The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.” MatterDoneWholeProcessInterestPowerfulBehindsDoorsDecadesWealthyLicenseInputClosed DoorsBehind Closed DoorsLicenses Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.” MenScienceInterestNaturalDoorsStudentsCollegeTypeAmbitionChiefsFrankDevotedMy AmbitionWilsonNatural HistoryGood StudentsHart Book:Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt Source: Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.” PeopleIfsFeelsInterestLaughingComedyDoorsEgoChecksFeel GoodEntertainingSoleMaking People Laugh Author:Dwayne Johnson
“For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.” YearsGovernmentActionFormPoliticsInterestBusinessBehindsKnownDarknessDoorsInfluenceIndustryCreaturesTwentiesAncientCornersInvisibleExecutivesLegislationBehalfInsidiousClosed DoorsVested InterestsBehind Closed Doors Author:Margaret Case Harriman
“Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.” KnowsNeedsChildrenRealYoungParentInterestEducationDoorsEventsBabyAdultsConcernEverydayVarietyInterpretationContrastArtificialInteractionFormalSpontaneousInfantPackagesYoung ChildrenOf ContextMailman Author:Sandra Scarr
“The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.” IfsLittlesSaidMightInterestTroubleDoorsStrategyRateBlockTargetMore MoneyBankersExitBankruptcyFeesInterest Rate Book:A Fighting Chance Source: A Fighting Chance
“We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired.” MindMomentsInterestTakenDoorsExampleTaughtNeededDegreesStandardsEncouragementInspiredCriticalCritical MomentsOpened Doors Author:David McCullough
“I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing.” IfsThinkingHeartInterestDoorsHollywoodAssumingPropertyDrivingHillsCopBest Interests At HeartPasadenaHollywood Hills Author:Quentin Tarantino
“People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do quite a bit. It's not something I ever for one second thought about. This is not my life story, and I've never told my life story, and I have no interest in telling my life story.” PeopleNeedsStoriesHomeHappensBitsInterestBehindsDoorsAssumptionAnalogiesLife StoryClosed DoorsSecond ThoughtsBehind Closed Doors Author:Charlize Theron
“For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from their houses. That is called "jingle mail," returning the keys to the bank and saying, "You can have the house. I can buy the house next door that's just like this for 20% less, so I'm going to save money and switch." That's what someone like Donald Trump or a real estate investor would do. But the banks are trying to convince the mortgage debtors, the homeowners, not to act in their own self-interest.” PeopleTryingI CanRealSelfWould BeNextHouseInterestDoorsKeysTrumpWalkingConvinceInvestorsMailEstatesBetter OffSelf InterestMortgageSaving MoneyWalking AwayDebtorsJinglesHomeowners Author:Michael Hudson
“We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the revolving door done and over with and get the big money out of politics.” NeedsRealDoneHandsBigsHappensInterestDoorsConflictLobbyistsRevolvingConflict Of InterestRevolving Doors Author:Jill Stein
“You have two parties that are funded by deep corporate interests, largely overlapping, that you begin to see a convergence. You have the Republican intelligentsia and the Republican spokespeople, and 50 GOP security figures who have all come into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. Not to mention Mitt Romney, who has defected from [Donald] Trump, although it's not clear where his vote is going to be. But everyone from John Negroponte to Meg Whitman have all declared allegiance to Hillary. And Hillary has likewise, very formally opened the door to encouraging Republicans to come in.” TwoInterestPartyClearDoorsSecurityFiguresTrumpRepublicanVoteClintonCorporateCampsRomneyAllegianceGopConvergenceMegOverlappingSpokespeople Author:Jill Stein