#amp

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#both #campaign #couple #down #dozen

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#convenient #creatures #down #follow #messy

We can't afford to see Afghanistan roll backwards into a failed state that could become a base from which terrorist campaigns can be launched anywhere in the world. ↗

— Liam Fox

#afghanistan #anywhere #backwards #base #become

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#apple #boxes #ditch #else #everybody

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#everyday #everyday life #life #many #music

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.' ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#amp #declare #definitely #gates #going

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#got #hear #nobody #radio #sad

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#amp #audience #because #being #designed

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. ↗

— Barney Frank

#before #camps #conservatives #divided #essentially

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration. ↗

— Hans Frank

#camps #concentration #entirely #had #matter