#my

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#captain #charged #dollars #down #goes

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. ↗

— David Horowitz

#based #because #could #economy #false

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#decided #give #i #mature #my own

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#american #american people #care #especially #extend

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#comic #comic strip #drawings #enjoy #imagine

South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#country #create #difficult #economy #food

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#around #better #both #common #expressing

But then, as I rotated gloopily to check out the scene, who did I see next? Let's just say when your archenemy's trapped you in a place of certain death, and you've survived heroically against all the odds, the last thing you want to see, when you escape at last, is that same archenemy glaring down at you with an expression of annoyed distaste. (Even a different archenemy would have been marginally better.) ↗

— Bartimaeus Trilogy The Amulet of Samarkand

#humor #death

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#different #different way #each #feed #found

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#being #concerned #human #human being #i