#los

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#america #black #born #cloud #harder

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#children #had #happen #i #lot

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham. ↗

— David Bailey

#east #ham #i #just #philosopher

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#behind #closed #died #doors #i

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#because #better #close #effects #encounters

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#everything #hand #like #look #make-up

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#closer #comes #concepts #eternal #eternal peace

St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#created #divine #god #man #paul

...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something." "I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave?" Tiara said. "Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around." "What happened?" Miss Ohio asked. "I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo. ↗

— Libba Bray

#lost #beauty

You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#how #learn #lose #unless #win