#corn

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause. ↗

— David Talbot

#became #cause #change #change the world #college

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#difficult #duran #get #out #pushed

I don't really drink sodas, but when I have popcorn or pizza I need a little. It's the perfect combination. ↗

— Alessandra Ambrosio

#drink #i #little #need #perfect

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#away #believe #commit #corners #daughters

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero. ↗

— James Belushi

#cornered #found #hero #heroes #i

The three-story derelict is home to Smitty, Gale, and Gale's baby - a nuclear family nested on the corner - and Ella is accustomed to seeing them on the front steps, waiting for redemption or a cool breeze from the harbor, neither of which seems particularly likely. ↗

— David Simon

#family

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes. ↗

— George W. Bush

#cutting #economic #economic policies #elected #everybody

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#dirtiest #drawings #huts #i #i see

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#corn #cows #factory-farms #food #industry

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

#convinced #could #dying #fellow #fellow americans