#bout

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#baltimore #being #being honest #beloved #better

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' ↗

— Henry Miller

#ask #asking #bring #damage #good

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position. ↗

— Joe Miller

#bankrupt #being #constitution #decades #disingenuous

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#any #causes #civil #civil war #extract

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things. ↗

— Phylicia Rashad

#beat #been #child #give #go

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones. ↗

— Bob Riley

#decisions #elected #good #good ones #government

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. ↗

— Robert Morris

#could #discovered #five #get #good

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#across #camera #drama #drama school #even

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#become #come #encourage #i #life

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#applying #earlier #effect #fairness #finite