#den

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed. ↗

— Max Baucus

#confirmed #find #get #i #necessary

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#company #counselor #counselors #garden #multitude

I was beautiful; after all, my skin was as rich and dark as wet, brown mud, a complexion that any and every pale white girl would pray for - that is, if she believed in God. My butt sat high in the air and my hips obviously gave birth to Creation. Titties like mangoes, firm, sweet, and ready. My thighs and legs were big and powerful, kicking Vanna White and Cindy Crawford to the curb. ↗

— Sister Souljah

#confidence #femininity #self-worth #beauty

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#become #burden #difference #elected #expensive

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#especially #identity #identity theft #nation #suburbs

When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#away #democratic #field #foreign #foreign policy

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#been #done #feel #full #having

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#accomplish #denigrate #his way #movement #organize

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#dissect #else #figured #gender #going

We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one. ↗

— Beck

#air #cause #hands #hip-hop #i