#gettin

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#could #feel #feel good #getting #good

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#anywhere #blaming #circumstances #day #even

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#care #child #education #finish #getting

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#cities #created #enormous #environmental #general

The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#bad #bad stuff #best #better #comic

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#any #art #beyond #death #different

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#corrective #current #does #drab #either

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#career #characters #childhood #elf #fantasies

I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#doctor #down #elevator #exciting #find

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. ↗

— Roy Blount, Jr.

#another #book #down #getting #gin