#gene

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it. ↗

— John Legend

#day #deal #downfall #every #every day

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#axiom #dogma #general #must #painting

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#expectation #expected #free #generally #i

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#become #career #doing #every #general

It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#fund #general #pay #security #social

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#knowledge #manners #medical #medicine #morals

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#asking #been #comedians #comedy #e-mail

I can make more generals, but horses cost money. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#generals #horses #i #i can #make

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#first #generation #growing #growing up #guess

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#generally #philosophers #politicians #try