#ak

I don't know anything else but the Lakers. This has certainly been more than a job for me as a player. It has certainly meant more to me than just an occupation. ↗

— Jerry West

#been #certainly #else #i #job

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#comes #gore #just #look #lot

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#author #bad #ever #issue #just

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. ↗

— Jerry West

#amount #athletes #believe #candid #enormous

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#china #control #forced #ideology #instrument

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#creative #creative person #even #important #involving

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#form #free #given #important #our

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#details #documentation #fascinating #friendships #however

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#civilization #dying #over #said #taken

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#became #discovery #i #interested #islamic