#own

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does. ↗

— Ben Okri

#changes #does #down #go #i

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#begun #by the time #came #down #had

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #cherish #citizens #death #groups

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#country #every #grows #hollywood #nations

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English. ↗

— David Mamet

#admire #asked #degree #down #english

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#contract #else #having #make #mistakes

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#business #business community #citizenry #community #confidence

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#art #believe #copyright #forced #god

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#compete #else #go #gymnastics #i