#allow

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. ↗

— Ben Okri

#another #dream #else #everybody #everybody else

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year? ↗

— Bill Pascrell

#allow #clean #close #did #expect

It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#athletic #be nice #healthy #like #look

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#like #poison #publicity #swallow #unless

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group. ↗

— Aaron Paul

#group #hollywood #me #part #thank

It's a treat to portray a complex character. Besides... where else could I find a job where emotional outbursts and odd exclamations like 'Egad!', 'Narf!', 'Poit!', 'Splonk!' and 'Zort!' are allowed? ↗

— Rob Paulsen

#besides #character #complex #complex character #could

Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#any #diet #frankly #i #sugar

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons. ↗

— Helen Prejean

#citizens #compromises #conceived #country #deepest

They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#about #after #allow #any #because

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#allowing #become #believing #celebrity #danger