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There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution. ↗

— Van Jones

#communities #corners #down #first #get

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#adult #america #audience #been #european

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#american #american idea #cannot #country #discarded

If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#mom #family

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#future #long #make #map #out

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too. ↗

— Bill Joy

#i think #levels #multiple #think #too

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features. ↗

— Bill Joy

#chuck #ed #eventually #features #hacked

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. ↗

— James Joyce

#between #friendship #impossible #intercourse #love

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career. ↗

— William Joyce

#called #career #consultation #did #fact

I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office. ↗

— William Joyce

#away #billy #bit #booger #book