#mad

All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#answering #basis #been #charges #defensive

My favorite fall or winter lunch is big steaming bowls of soup. I usually invite people for around 12:30 and have two hearty soups like shrimp corn chowder and lentil sausage soup, which can be made a day or two ahead. ↗

— Ina Garten

#around #big #bowls #corn #day

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#creatures #efficacy #forgot #fruitful #god

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#during #first #great #had #here

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. ↗

— Jay Leno

#mad #makes #somebody #stay #who

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#father #father and son #first #genetics #history

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#father #funniest #i #like #look

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american history #been #color #contributions #history

Always my collections are made of different influences. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#collections #different #influences #made