#in

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different. ↗

— Barry Watson

#being different #cowboys #dallas #different #earring

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#every time #expecting #expects #him #his

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship. ↗

— Emily Watson

#concentrate #darkened #had #i #interesting

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#child #happened #helped #i #i believe

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. ↗

— Robert Frost

#disagreeing #thinking #voting

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish. ↗

— Emma Watson

#bit #even #feel #framework #having

You know, fate intervened. I went on to the DCMS committee to have a quieter life before the phone hacking scandal broke, and then ended up investigating the company that had libelled me previously when I was a minister. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#broke #committee #company #ended #fate

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did

The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#because #black #black community #community #deeper

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. ↗

— George Savile

#been #business #celebrated #despised #most