#person

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come. ↗

— Amar Bose

#come #dark #father #food #i

Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#continued #enforcement #hard #law #law enforcement

I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened. ↗

— Marlen Esparza

#before #going #had #happened #happiest

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#broadcast #feel #i #i feel #life

I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot. ↗

— Will Estes

#got #graduating #great #high #high school

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#fiction #i #love #novel #personal

If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#before #book #character #different #done

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop. ↗

— Bono

#age #between #closed #digital #doing

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. ↗

— Bono

#books #dunno #ever #gift #give

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. ↗

— Bono

#christ #made #person #scriptures #simple