#of

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings. ↗

— David Niven

#get #his #laugh #life #man

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. ↗

— Larry Niven

#aids #along #childhood #come #disease

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off. ↗

— Larry Niven

#because #cut #direction #embedded #field

If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#decision #door #even #good #how

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#child actors #even #hit #kids #make

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#front #health #needs #often #women

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office. ↗

— David Cone

#any #closet #far #i #many

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#direction #had #influence #justices #lasting

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#been #before #body #completed #effective

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#blunt #candid #confidentiality #containing #different