#nit

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#african #came #definitely #ditch #east

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make. ↗

— Norman Lear

#community #deal #directors #granted #great

Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike. ↗

— Ang Lee

#community #everyone #gay #gay community #think

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#blessing #colleagues #great #mixed #public

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#get #hereditary #insanity #you #your

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#america #budget #class #clear #designed

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#create #hell #i #opportunities

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#department #final #i #i think #justice

His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#chinese-department-stores #christianity #the-graf-zeppelin-club #respect

I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers. ↗

— Spike Lee

#america #bombarded #culture #dominant #every