#liz

When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know? ↗

— Jewel

#care #children #day #every #every day

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#confront #courage #determination #discipline #grave

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#conspiracy #down #dumb #exactly #get

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli. ↗

— David Johansen

#got #i #like #liza #looking

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#had #how #i #immediately #important

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#had #human #i #lucy #name

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#acting #emotions #heart #i #manipulate

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. ↗

— Elton John

#changed #conservative #conservatives #finally #grew

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#age #become #century #complex #defenseless