#petition

When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff. ↗

— Joan Blades

#connection #deliver #experience #go #his way

I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#called #competition #did #dinner #golden

I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#came #cleveland #competition #division #first

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#catastrophes #destructive #errors #fatal #great

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now? ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#champagne #competition #deserve #entitlement #i

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#been #better #difficulty #effect #experience

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#day #english #first #half #heart

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#doing #elements #everyone #exactly #free

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation. ↗

— Laurent Fabius

#constitution #detriment #does #europe #innovation

Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied. ↗

— A.G. Starling

#competition #contemporary-romance #game #love #sexy