#ld

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#american #american children #children #father #little

If we can kill Saddam, we should. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#saddam #should

I've been reading horror since I was five years old. ↗

— George Stephen

#five #horror #i #old #reading

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#independence #more #only #ourselves #possession

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#complicated #else #everything #life #poetry

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#get #ignore #making #most #poetry

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us. ↗

— Nia Long

#because #being #child #four #interested

The world has no room for cowards. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#room #world

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up. ↗

— George Lopez

#i #nobody #only #somebody #stand-up