#am

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#businesses #children #death #death tax #destroying

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end. ↗

— Lane Kirkland

#bitter #bitter end #drivers #end #general

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#because #give #glamorous #growing #growing up

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#always #am #caricature #come #extremely

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps. ↗

— Mia Kirshner

#comes #dance #dumb #i #i am

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#amazed #any #form #generally #hours

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money. ↗

— Tom Kite

#around #charities #children #decided #event

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it? ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#about #anything #gender #i #i do

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#character #our

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking creature with teeth like needles and bulging yellowish eyes that lives in deep waters off the coast of South America. It did not catch on with sophisticated foodies until an enterprising Los Angeles importer renamed it the considerably more palatable "Chilean sea bass. ↗

— Hal Herzog

#food #foodie #language #linguistics #names