#not

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#basis #cannot #care #equal #i

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ↗

— Emile Zola

#artist #gift #nothing #without #work

I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm. ↗

— David Keith

#another #bag #charm #fake #his

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#ask #butter #daddy #daughter #face

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artist #cat #elephant #giraffe #god

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#established #faith #liberty #morality #nor

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation. ↗

— R. Kelly

#just #notice #people #real #situation

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation. ↗

— Walt Kelly

#done #energy #enough #good #intention

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life. ↗

— Gary Kemp

#admit #band #did #direct #enough

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#alone #cannot #centers #community #crisis