#ah

Your dad was in a street gang?" My adopted dad was an accountant for a big Fortune 500 corporation. Him, me, and my adopted mom lived in the suburbs in an English Tudor house with a gigantic basement where he fiddled with model trains. The other dads were lawyers and research chemists, but they all ran model trains. Every weekend they could, they'd load into a family van and cruise into the city for research. Snapping pictures of gang members. Gang graffiti. Sex workers walking their tracks. Litter and pollution and homeless heroin addicts. All this, they'd study and bicker about, trying to outdo each other with the most realistic, the grittiest scenes of urban decay they could create in HO train scale in a subdivision basement ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#palahniuk #snuff #family

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#ahead #business #get #life #others

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#future #long #make #map #out

Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#i #know #lot #people #privilege

Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#changes #changing #climate #degrees #diminishes

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#existence #his #jew #judaism #life

I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead. ↗

— Al Kaline

#aisle #down #every #eye #eyes

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#combination #definitely #fashion #like #line

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#around #butler #feet #having #house

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am. ↗

— David Fincher

#barbara #i #i am #me #oprah