#geth

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#barack #barack obama #bringing #collective #committee

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#change #democracy #dr #everyday #everyday people

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#ask #asked #because #black #blond

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together. ↗

— John Zorn

#beethoven #clear #i #influences #life

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#fashion #great #great things #silence #themselves

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place. ↗

— Ovid

#love #majesty #nor #place #same

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#arguing #bank #bank robbery #cab #four

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. ↗

— Angela Carter

#ancient greeks #cinema #dark #dream #dreaming

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#each #how #killing #learn #live

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials. ↗

— David Zucker

#business #business partners #commercials #create #distribution