#mila

I realised with a prickle of discomfort why he bothered me: it was not so much that I resented the hearty backslapping bonhomie of English upper-class gentlemen, for I could tolerate it well enough in Sidney on his own. It was the way Sidney fell so easily into this strutting group of young men, where I could not, and the fear that he might in some ways prefer their company to mine. Once again, I felt that peculiar stab of loneliness that only an exile truly knows: the sense that I did not belong, and never would again. ↗

— S.J. Parris

#culture #identity #men

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#bring #department #did #first #had

Buffy's very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons? ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#between #buffy #child #demons #does

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#facebook #first #history #jobs #know

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed. ↗

— Jack Gould

#commercials #less #likely #more #sex

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#conformists #democracy #dissidents #freedom #gives

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#amsterdam #canals #city #conditions #dutch

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. ↗

— Andy Lau

#i #languages #many #other #similar

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world. ↗

— Artie Lange

#being #big #boss #funny #got

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#alabama #decades #doing #found #hard