#lad

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. ↗

— James McGreevey

#came #climbed #compromises #easy #electoral

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. ↗

— Bette Midler

#lady #macbeth #make #pair #platform

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#boy #came #first #how #lads

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it. ↗

— Bill Monroe

#glad #i #music #originated #wonderful

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#action #against #bin #bush #chief

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger ↗

— Lady Gaga

#cow #lady-gaga #kill

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air. ↗

— Audie Murphy

#air #before #begun #congo #ever

When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.' ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#attitude #back #board #cannot #career

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I had better news for you but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. This is a threat that we've never faced before. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#better #faced #facing #feared #gentlemen