#nag

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#arrested #avoid #been #bound #charged

I knew from Brianna that being beautiful wasn’t all great. Brianna had changed in middle school. One day we were both seventh graders and the next, she was a supermodel who had a seventh grader for a best friend. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#young-adult #young-adult-romance #beauty

The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you'll get a great return. ↗

— Jim Loehr

#demands #energy #get #great #great job

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#i #orphanages #set #underprivileged #up

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#childhood #forming #high #high school #i

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't. ↗

— Anthea Turner

#delegation #everything #first #management #rule

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. ↗

— George McGovern

#close-up #i #lucky #never #plane

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#adam #adam sandler #better #between #brooks

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#doing #i #i can #know #least