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So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#going #graduated #i #lawyer #military

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days. ↗

— Larry David

#days #doing #i #some #standup

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#bodies #breath #determined #life #other

I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#bother #deal #does #expect #go

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#any #comes #curtain #disaster #down

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#concerns #concrete #contributions #criteria #economic

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#am #beyond #case #far #goes

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#ashamed #hands #necessarily #private #something

My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by, is Roger Federer. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#favorite #federer #i #player #roger

We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals. ↗

— Doug Davidson

#angeles #children #clean #clean air #could