#occupied

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#american television #choice #ethnicity #food #i

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#calling #discovered #every #five #had

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#examine #find #future #occupied #our

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#been #behave #democratic #fair #focus

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#back #behavior #belongs #creation #day

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#deadlines #i #just #other #preoccupied

I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #changing #director #doing #else

It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#fascinating #great #i #life #me

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#lands #limited #more #new #soon