#ip

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities. ↗

— Vincent Frank

#because #better #builds #communities #community

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #parents #relationships #faith

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. ↗

— Al Franken

#easier #put #slippers #than #whole

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#cannot #like #partnership #religion #sanction

Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#family #family

Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music. ↗

— Michael Franti

#against #angry #clap #dance #gaza

These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#clip #films #i #layer #material

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#am #approach #get #i #i am

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself. ↗

— Joe Frazier

#himself #i #make #man #me

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#big #big budget #budget #course #driving