#aid

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#girlfriend #giving #god #i #introduced

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#challenge #doctor #get #heard #i

People talk about that catch and, I've said this many times, that I've made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn't have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn't see me do a lot of things. ↗

— Willie Mays

#better #catch #catches #course #during

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.' ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#first #get #grandmother #her #i

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#criticized #ear #goes #in the past #me

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#bedroom #child #drink #going #i

I'm not afraid of death. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#death #i

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#i #living #make #makeup #other

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#consequence #decade #during #firm #first

If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#condom #country #only #safe #said