#because

I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV. ↗

— Al Roker

#angry #because #being #better #bitter

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#effort #gods #great #impress #journeys

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

#control #dictatorships #exert #external #internal

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#dies #man #necessarily #thing #true

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#say #something #want #write #you

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#compete #competing #competition #field #fierce

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot. ↗

— Ike Turner

#beginning #develop #fingers #haven #i

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#because #coming #god #know #next

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#i #me #never #political #satire

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States. ↗