#latin

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#build #coalition #companies #daschle #decade

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead-language #death #eulogy #funeral #funny

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#back #british #britons #elites #given

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out. ↗

— Beyonce Knowles

#chill #chill out #even #go #how

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#contrary #country #engaged #enter #going

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#breaking #breaking up #called #character #coming

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#different #either #french #french language #great

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#also #began #being #composing #i

Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#being #born #care #children #cognitive