#around

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach. ↗

— James McGreevey

#around #core #further #gave #i

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#i #life #live #love #mad

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. ↗

— James McHenry

#bible #draw #increase #institutions #laws

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#amazing #around #brother #by the time #city

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end. ↗

— Pras Michel

#anyone #around #because #blame #caught

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended. ↗

— Michael Michele

#around #get #i #me #men

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#comment #encounters #family #friends #group

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#certain #certain things #each #film #got

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#actually #always #anger #angry #around

I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine. ↗

— Jim Morris

#around #bringing #came #consider #destination