#arte

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton. ↗

— Lou Duva

#come #expect #four #out #princeton

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. ↗

— Leslie Easterbrook

#characters #comedy #desire #doing #ended

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#east #founded #greece #group #i

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system. ↗

— John Elway

#because #compare #different #everybody #i

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish. ↗

— Brian Eno

#finish #flirting #i #ideas #kind

I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself. ↗

— Joe Flanigan

#become #big #blade #blade runner #fan

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#dancing #did #done #following #future

My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. ↗

— A. J. Foyt

#bad luck #cars #dad #daddy #drivers

We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#baby #back #bananas #belly #carrying