#lt

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore? ↗

— Cass Elliot

#come #country #had #i #just

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#common #companies #getting #more #policy

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#frailty #immortality #life #mortality #shortness-of-life

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#college #college level #congress #end #english

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. ↗

— James Ellroy

#alone #casualty #early #focus #hurt

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey. ↗

— Bai Ling

#because #chinese #chinese culture #culture #follow

I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#could #get #i #i wish #kind

There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#blueprint #crisis #financial #fixing #global

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#dies #difficulties #encounter #established #force

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#chaos #citizens #colonial #french #haiti