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I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it. ↗

— Dominic West

#anything #beautiful #customs #fbi #glamorous

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground. ↗

— Dominic West

#being #bored #comfort #dad #disapproving

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#alive #barriers #between #communication #elders

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#east #forgive #grit #having #mistakes

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#broken #fester #forever #heal #opens

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#awakening #does #him #love #religious

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#anything #drill #easier #people #properly

This dark diction has become America's addiction. ↗

— Kanye West

#america #become #dark #diction

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#been #circles #david #declined #domestic

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones. ↗

— Kanye West

#also #boring #even #first #i