#ham

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are. ↗

— Artur Davis

#before #bend #blessed #blows #break

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#everybody #everything #house #i #i think

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#championship #chess #computer #computer program #forward

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#comedians #equal #female #find #guys

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital. ↗

— Howard Dean

#allocating #capital #doing #even #i

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats. ↗

— Kool Moe Dee

#break #chamber #echo #era #favorite

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#always #ashamed #back #back to school #behavior

I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#champion #competed #games #i #i love

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#been #champions #friends #heavyweight #i

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#between #calamity #difference #dragged #fell