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Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people. – Margaret Thatcher	added by Normando 5 months ago
What you don’t know is that the moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse, backwards. Freaking all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. In real time, we had to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse. Talk about professionalism. – Brandon Mathis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Anytime you pull back the curtain on Democrats, you see open racism and hate, senator Golden’s vile commentary toward Black Americans is outrageous and unacceptable. Jeff Golden should resign from office immediately. – Oregon GOP chairman Justin Hwang	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
[ The doctors ] pulled the curtain around my bed and said,' It's a brain tumour,' all I could think was,' F --- ing hell !' I was in shock. – Tom Parker	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The invasion of Ukraine by the Belarusian army is a step with irreversible ramifications, it would be a shameful stain on relations with the Ukrainian people and would further isolate Belarus from the rest of the world, right up to the Iron Curtain, behind which Belarus would not be seen as an independent state, and life in the country would descend into poverty. – Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Night is an abyss at the edge of a footstep, raining anvils in a mercury-retrograde imagination needing chemicals. Fog is a curtain of anticipation. When lifted our way is lit by stars on a high dose of infinity. – Belinda Subraman	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
I think Covid has allowed all of America to see behind the education curtain, so, we just thought we could take the skills that we have learned and the inside information that we learned about the public education system to help parents advocate more effectively for their children. – Tiffany Justice	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There are many, many great Americans who were born and raised behind the Iron Curtain, it is not about where she happens to be from, it's about the views she holds. – Pat Toomey	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Everybody in China uses WeChat. It's hard to appreciate how important it is for reaching people in China, it appears like [ the US ] is trying to drop an Iron Curtain between the countries so that people can't communicate with each other. – Willy Shih	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The curtain dress has a special place in everyone's hearts. – Jill Morena	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Oct 2001, NSA and the US government started adopting procedures, techniques and processes that Soviet Union and Stasi and all countries behind iron curtain were using. – William Binney	added by anonymous 4 years ago
We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday? – Jules Renard	added by anonymous 4 years ago
It was a whole curtain of fire, there was fire on all sides. We had to leave. – Edwin Bernard	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The story will one day be told : at a lunch, a number of the great leaders, great women on our campaign, thought up this incredible idea to just open up the curtain and show people behind the scenes of what we needed to thrive and survive. – Cory BookerBooker	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I fear that big parts of the global economy will ultimately be closed off to the free flow of investment and trade. And that is why I now see the prospect of an economic iron curtain -- one that throws up new walls on each side and unmakes the global economy, as we have known it. – Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The curtain has gone up on a new era that will be filled with hope. – Hiroshi Takahashi	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The curtain has gone up on a new era that will be filled with hope, the new emperor has an admirable personality and I hope he creates a fine royal household that expresses his own personality. – Hiroshi Takahashi	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We believe this case pulled the curtain back on what goes on at a health insurance company when claims are being denied, the jury's verdict delivered the message that the public will not stand for insurance companies putting profits before policyholders. – Doug Terry	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Bob Woodwards peek behind the Trump curtain is 100 % as terrifying as we fearedIn between Trump saying no senator mentioned it and him admitting Senator Graham mentioned it comes this line from Bob Woodward :. – Senator Graham	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Baker hides behind the chaos Trump creates. He hopes we’ll lower our expectations and simply be grateful he isn’t crazy like our president, well, Charlie, you can’t hide from us. We are pulling back the curtain on your failed leadership. We expect more from our governor. Not being crazy is not good enough. – Jay Gonzalez	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I play Donald Trump’s right-hand man, working in Trump Tower, and Evan Peters’ [character] comes in and interviews for a job. I don’t know what else I am allowed to say but I know I can say that. We never see Donald Trump. He’s like Oz. He’s always behind the curtain, but I’m his right-hand man. – Van Der Beek	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
You know, in the past, I felt like I had to be, kind of careful in public, sort of keep my guard up. Well those days are over, and I am so pleased that I can pull the curtain back in the book on the unprecedented election – the first reality TV election in American history. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
When the curtain opens, I turn on this knucklehead, and he kind of takes over and goes away again once I walk off set, that’s that great self-defense mechanism. – Ryan Reynolds	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
When you talk about ‘ Making America Great Again, ’ America being great everyone assumed was the Eisenhower ‘ 50s, and it was great if you were a white, straight male, but other than that it probablywas n’tso great, it’s fun to lift up that curtain and look underneath that thin veneer and see some of the real problems that this country has yet to completely come to terms with. – George Clooney	Found on FOX News 6 years ago

Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people.

– Margaret Thatcher

added by Normando
5 months ago

What you don’t know is that the moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse, backwards. Freaking all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. In real time, we had to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse. Talk about professionalism.

– Brandon Mathis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anytime you pull back the curtain on Democrats, you see open racism and hate, senator Golden’s vile commentary toward Black Americans is outrageous and unacceptable. Jeff Golden should resign from office immediately.

– Oregon GOP chairman Justin Hwang

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

[ The doctors ] pulled the curtain around my bed and said,' It's a brain tumour,' all I could think was,' F --- ing hell !' I was in shock.

– Tom Parker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The invasion of Ukraine by the Belarusian army is a step with irreversible ramifications, it would be a shameful stain on relations with the Ukrainian people and would further isolate Belarus from the rest of the world, right up to the Iron Curtain, behind which Belarus would not be seen as an independent state, and life in the country would descend into poverty.

– Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Night is an abyss at the edge of a footstep, raining anvils in a mercury-retrograde imagination needing chemicals. Fog is a curtain of anticipation. When lifted our way is lit by stars on a high dose of infinity.

– Belinda Subraman

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

I think Covid has allowed all of America to see behind the education curtain, so, we just thought we could take the skills that we have learned and the inside information that we learned about the public education system to help parents advocate more effectively for their children.

– Tiffany Justice

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are many, many great Americans who were born and raised behind the Iron Curtain, it is not about where she happens to be from, it's about the views she holds.

– Pat Toomey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Everybody in China uses WeChat. It's hard to appreciate how important it is for reaching people in China, it appears like [ the US ] is trying to drop an Iron Curtain between the countries so that people can't communicate with each other.

– Willy Shih

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The curtain dress has a special place in everyone's hearts.

– Jill Morena

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Oct 2001, NSA and the US government started adopting procedures, techniques and processes that Soviet Union and Stasi and all countries behind iron curtain were using.

– William Binney

added by anonymous
4 years ago

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?

– Jules Renard

added by anonymous
4 years ago

It was a whole curtain of fire, there was fire on all sides. We had to leave.

– Edwin Bernard

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The story will one day be told : at a lunch, a number of the great leaders, great women on our campaign, thought up this incredible idea to just open up the curtain and show people behind the scenes of what we needed to thrive and survive.

– Cory BookerBooker

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I fear that big parts of the global economy will ultimately be closed off to the free flow of investment and trade. And that is why I now see the prospect of an economic iron curtain -- one that throws up new walls on each side and unmakes the global economy, as we have known it.

– Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The curtain has gone up on a new era that will be filled with hope.

– Hiroshi Takahashi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The curtain has gone up on a new era that will be filled with hope, the new emperor has an admirable personality and I hope he creates a fine royal household that expresses his own personality.

– Hiroshi Takahashi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We believe this case pulled the curtain back on what goes on at a health insurance company when claims are being denied, the jury's verdict delivered the message that the public will not stand for insurance companies putting profits before policyholders.

– Doug Terry

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Bob Woodwards peek behind the Trump curtain is 100 % as terrifying as we fearedIn between Trump saying no senator mentioned it and him admitting Senator Graham mentioned it comes this line from Bob Woodward :.

– Senator Graham

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Baker hides behind the chaos Trump creates. He hopes we’ll lower our expectations and simply be grateful he isn’t crazy like our president, well, Charlie, you can’t hide from us. We are pulling back the curtain on your failed leadership. We expect more from our governor. Not being crazy is not good enough.

– Jay Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I play Donald Trump’s right-hand man, working in Trump Tower, and Evan Peters’ [character] comes in and interviews for a job. I don’t know what else I am allowed to say but I know I can say that. We never see Donald Trump. He’s like Oz. He’s always behind the curtain, but I’m his right-hand man.

– Van Der Beek

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

You know, in the past, I felt like I had to be, kind of careful in public, sort of keep my guard up. Well those days are over, and I am so pleased that I can pull the curtain back in the book on the unprecedented election – the first reality TV election in American history.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When the curtain opens, I turn on this knucklehead, and he kind of takes over and goes away again once I walk off set, that’s that great self-defense mechanism.

– Ryan Reynolds

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When you talk about ‘ Making America Great Again, ’ America being great everyone assumed was the Eisenhower ‘ 50s, and it was great if you were a white, straight male, but other than that it probablywas n’tso great, it’s fun to lift up that curtain and look underneath that thin veneer and see some of the real problems that this country has yet to completely come to terms with.

– George Clooney

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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