#la

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#dominate #evil #good #good people #happens

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#grows #slavery #soil #weed

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#dramatically #gone #i #i think #index

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#because #black #career #concepts #done

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#dues #every #incremental #into #payment

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#almost #difficult #hit #home #home run

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#against #attorneys #black #entertainers #financial

Will you still love me when I'm a monster? ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#maddigans #maddigans-fantasia #margaret-mahy #timon #timon-and-eden

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#end #label #leonard #passed #time

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#drag #gonna #gotta #integrity #mud