#ow

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bad #began #booming #economy #expecting

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. ↗

— Black Elk

#how #read #see #will #written

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#away #citizens #class citizens #constitution #decent

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#build #chance #democracy #enough #explain

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#also #another #area #asked #crime

He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#ask #good #great #him #know

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#conflict #could #disarmed #father #first

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#acting #direct #find #i #just

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#art #comes #does #draws #ether