#lowe

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#among #around #balance #believed #certainly

I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#been #east #east side #growing #growing up

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#concern #fighting #followed #highest #highest priority

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today. ↗

— Junior Seau

#allowed #am #being #come #equipment

I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#anything #environment #find #flea #flowers

The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care. ↗

— John Shadegg

#cannot #care #choices #firsthand #free

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#everything #family #fields #flowers #i

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#born #farm #flowers #get #i

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#denied #desertion #enough #facilities #good