#be

Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#cultural #legacies #attitude

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#clarity #like #line #pitch #put

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#american politics #barack #because #black #cuz

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language. ↗

— Tony Scott

#boring #different #different language #generally #i

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#begin #coercive #compulsory #dissent #dissenters

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#actually #audience #going #i #member

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#ambition #american #american citizens #among #best

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction. ↗

— Sheldon Jackson

#be true #give #good #his #instruction

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? ↗

— Gregory Peck

#people #remember #times #tough #tough times

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition. ↗

— Stu Jackson

#coaching #competition #decided #games #get