#pond

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#black #different #greater #i #imagine

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#correspondent #during #i #i remember #independence

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#early #even #go #i #kids

But actually just yesterday we raised the key of one of my songs two steps up, so my voice is obviously responding. It's a muscle, and the more you use it, the more you use it right, the more you should get out of it. So yes, I sing. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#get #i #just #key #more

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#courage #defines #destroy #doing #freedoms

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world. ↗

— Juan Cole

#big #big change #change #felt #i

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth. ↗

— Susan Collins

#childbirth #during #ensure #first #following

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#body #challenge #corresponding #declaration #duly

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#change #choose #conscience #creative #every

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#best #clooney #could #disappear #george