#liz

It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#al pacino #cast #de niro #elizabeth #ethnic

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#clean #clean up #gun #guns #industry

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#fool #helping #how #humor #realize

Only lately, like within the last few years, have I had people actually do an impression of me to me, which weirds me out to think of what they have picked up on, without ever realizing it myself. ↗

— Todd Barry

#ever #few #had #i #impression

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#age #civilization #rise #risen #stone

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#centralized #continue #democracy #european #finding

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. ↗

— August Bebel

#civilization #enemy #liberty

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#atheism #belief #less #many #modernity

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#countries #globalized #internally #longer #muslim

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#concern #eyes #first #future #globalization