#nag

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#been #blame #conventional #conventional wisdom #girl

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#autonomy #between #characterized #conflict #country

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#being #comfortable #i #i am #now

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#carnage #casually #how #i #i am

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#art #faculties #havoc #keep #logic

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#completely #else #everybody #everybody else #explore

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings. ↗

— Noomi Rapace

#blonde hair #dyed #had #hair #i

I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#because #bring #costs #cover #directors

Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well. ↗

— Jamie Redknapp

#dad #get #ham #harry #manager

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#doing #else #even #everything #fundamentals