#pre

The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#i #more #myself #pressure #put

I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#although #broke #difficult #films #form

If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare. ↗

— John Podesta

#included #medicare #medicine #practiced #prescriptions

Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves. ↗

— Ted Poe

#because #budget #budget cuts #cuts #easy

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. ↗

— James K. Polk

#blessings #civil #devout #favored #humility

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. ↗

— James K. Polk

#appeal #constitution #minorities #oppression #right

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#airplane #any #artists #atom #atom bomb

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#authority #authorizing #benjamin #benjamin franklin #bush

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me. ↗

— Victor Ponta

#me #negative #press #see #should