#ay

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#asian #day #economy #events #every

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#nerd #off #pays #really #sometimes

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #built #came #civil #civil rights

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#back #been #bring #days #india

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play. ↗

— Richard Strauss

#difficult #human #human voice #instrument #most

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#avoid #design #execution #material #most

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#black #black comedy #comedy #day #full

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anti-semitism #been #desperate #economic #i

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#care #i #just #just be #me

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#barbra streisand #biggest #driving #dying #get