#ore

There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

#before #big #country #critical #critical thinking

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#addict #am #before #call #cell

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#america #any #country #criticize #exactly

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#american #american history #anyone #anything #beautiful

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#am #certainly #circumstance #history #i

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#crutch #desirable #divested #frightening #more

The more one judges, the less one loves. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#less #loves #more

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. ↗

— Richard Bach

#call #done #get #i #less

America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#canada #does #gets #little #more

I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#before #blown #blown away #feeling #had