#close

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

I didn't feel particularly close to my father. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#father #feel #i #particularly

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#catch #certain #close #cut #down

We're getting closer to our nature. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#getting #nature #our

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others. ↗

— John Stossel

#away #bankrupt #close #creative #creative people

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them. ↗

— Boy George

#closet #gay #had #i #knew

I don't feel closeted. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#feel #i

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#certain actors #closet #get #i #stay

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#eyes #memories #reality #you #your

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story. ↗

— Ang Lee

#close #could #couple #first #function