#mari

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #fullest #i #i think #life

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american life #clinton #code #economic #increase

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#born #had #human #human right #i

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette. ↗

— Leif Garrett

#beach #beach boys #doing #had #i

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#complete #different #east #found #guess

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#am #basis #daily #daily basis #experience

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#family #i #i came #into #marines

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#been #death #double #iraq #marines

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#could #entire #ever #everyone #filled