#ang

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#dork #gangly #i #really #such

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#blacks #bring #chairs #change #coming

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#american #american society #ballots #benefits #come

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east. ↗

— Burl Ives

#change #clothes #down #down the road #east

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles. ↗

— Swoosie Kurtz

#ask #director #first #first thing #i

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#african-american #against #barack #barack obama #born

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

#classified #except #explained #language #light

Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. ↗

— King James I

#dangerous #harmful #hateful #lungs #nose

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. ↗

— William James

#away #belief #change #differently #dissolve

Language is memory and metaphor. ↗

— Storm Jameson

#memory #metaphor