#mos

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. ↗

— David Frum

#anybody #audience #become #born #britain

The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#best #lovers #make #most #people

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#almost #because #divorced #getting #getting married

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#aids #because #different #different levels #differently

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. ↗

— William Gaddis

#collapse #high #his #most #noted

Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#companies #comprised #fund #held #insurance

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#dream #fearless #had #i #monster

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #cases #convey #even #improbable

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#first #five #flights #lost #most

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write. ↗

— Tim Gane

#fill #getting #heart #i #i think