#ole

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#combating #entire #entire nation #gang #gang violence

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#fooled #i #journalism #most #people

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains. ↗

— Patrick White

#asthmatic #blue #brief #country #house

When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#attack #bad #distract #either #film

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#always #back #i #i think #make

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#content #lacking #nothing #realize #rejoice

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#back #black #brave #come #decided

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#regular #tolerant #very

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this. ↗

— Bono

#africa #continent #disease #extreme #extreme poverty

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#life #play #really #sports #wanted