#kin

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. ↗

— Anita Diament

#i #i love #jazz #kinds #love

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#city #coyote #finds #get #hard

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#appreciate #barren #creativity #deserts #fields

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#between #born #combination #contradiction #first

I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#figure #i #i always #me #music

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#am #american #anybody #clinton #contributed

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. ↗

— Pericles

#gives #grave #king #men #parent

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#chair #distant #door #down #duty

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#barriers #being #between #dictator #ever

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#because #career #chance #comfortable #doing