#ant

Can we please focus? We are supposed to be professionals." Holly said. "Not me!" said Orion cheerily, "I'm just a Teenager with hormones running wild and may I say, young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#atlantis-complex #eoin-colfer #orion-fowl #focus

What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so the ethnic cleansing of Germans was a precondition for the Stalinization of Poland. I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eastern-european #ernest-gellner #ethnic-cleansing #genocide #germans

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. ↗

— Aaliyah

#chance #eye #get #give #i

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person. ↗

— Aaliyah

#full #good #good person #i #me

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do. ↗

— Aaliyah

#dance #i #interpreter #laugh #life

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing. ↗

— Aaliyah

#amazing #cool #go #kids #mall

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life. ↗

— Aaliyah

#certain things #discuss #i #keep #life

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted. ↗

— Willie Aames

#act #actor #actually #because #become

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ. ↗

— Willie Aames

#christ #come #comes #goes #i

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#anthologies #comers #editors #established #feet