#lis

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#cuba #dad #english #find #generation

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#i #just #listen #mood #motivator

So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#i do #laying #lightly #off #people

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. ↗

— Henry Villard

#acted #career #danger #field #general

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#comedy #entertainment #into #journalism #lines

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#been #finds #good #investigative #journalism

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability. ↗

— Betty Cuthbert

#age #best #early #early age #gave

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#become #chore #day #down #every

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#diaries #english #father #his #norwegian

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk. ↗

— Dick Dale

#before #blisters #drums #even #fingers