#col

I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde! ↗

— Leighton Meester

#brown #bunch #colors #did #different

I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#agent #anything #big #big break #break

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. ↗

— Herman Melville

#harvard #ship #whale #yale

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#college #diploma #ealing #got #graphics

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#central #cold #cold war #courage #decades

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#cole porter #had #porter #reputation #worldwide

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#cole #cole porter #four #goes #hits

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#book #columns #gives #gossip #had

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me. ↗