#oda

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#american #back #front #great #great responsibility

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #blacks #embracing #expensive #first

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#beautiful #crazy #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #gorgeous

I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#developing #digital #done #fantastic #films

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#captivated #film #i #imagination #king

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

#today

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #big #come #curtains #daylight

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. ↗

— William James

#business #cannot #convenience #does #exclusively

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#around #back #battery #carrying #cell