#gettin

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college. ↗

— Treat Williams

#college #getting #i #kids #silly

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#access #anxieties #anxiety #attention #care

For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked. ↗

— Venus Williams

#air #asthma #diagnosed #enough #felt

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#asks #been #chances #getting #her

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#center #doing #enough #felt #getting

It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying. ↗

— Ben Folds

#artwork #behind #collaborating #dizzying #end

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late. ↗

— Ben Folds

#getting #growing #growing old #late #never

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek. ↗

— Jim Davis

#bit #dates #geek #getting #i

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#closed #crime #everybody #final #getting