#ed

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#competition #curtis #disappointed #gave #hoped

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#becomes #buildings #city #crowded #different

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. ↗

— Mos Def

#door #face #feels #firmly #i

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. ↗

— Hans Kung

#cold #cold war #collapse #colonialism #communism

I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#boy #care #enlisted #fed #gave

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#depression #friends #good #good friends #i

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#called #could #enviable #i #i was born

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#certain #certain point #go #healthy #hold

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#family #her #resided #respectable

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#i think #just #lot #luck #matter