#my

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean. ↗

— Usher

#carried #child #father #hated #his

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs. ↗

— Elie Saab

#extent #i #just #large #large extent

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. ↗

— Saadi

#enemy #enmity #excepting #friend #increases

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#almost #being #combat #elements #even

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#character #formed #stormy #world

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#american #economy #gave #ideas #innovative

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own. ↗

— William Safire

#channeling #dismissed #dummy #having #live

In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#began #biological #compelling #concern #extent

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance. ↗

— Chris Evans

#dance #god #i #i am #lunatic

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#full #i #i love #kid #kids