#matt

I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.' ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#ask #call #god #grade #hand

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#assumption #because #been #english #her

We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them. ↗

— John Redwood

#affect #always #been #daily #daily lives

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#black #could #difficulty #economic #fact

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#everything #holding #holding on #i #impossible

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#matter #meet #open #open society #our

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#completely #consequent #control #definition #difficulty

Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#affects #best #develop #environment #feeling

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#africa #around #because #country #elements

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#brown #gets #matter #performance #promoted