#lon

If you are miserable and ill, I can understand why you would not want to live a long time. But if you are happy and productive, why not? Why should people have to grow old and die? ↗

— Damon Knight

#longevity #death

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonies #era #government #new #new era

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#both #colonies #counties #each #forerunner

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family. In New York, I’m invisible. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#coming-of-age #family #home #identity #invisibility

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#focused #great #great leaders #jeff #jobs

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish. ↗

— Olivia De Havilland

#city #else #equate #hollywood #long

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#been #even #i #just #long

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo. ↗

— Ronnie Hawkins

#become #been #boy #business #corner

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#ditzy #dumb #i #i can

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well. ↗

— Matthew Hayden

#another #cricket #cup #game #go