#pre

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#excellence #next

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#any #anything #be prepared #compromise #liked

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more. ↗

— Harvey Martin

#alcohol #appreciate #back #before #did

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down. ↗

— Francis J. Grimke

#lived #must #prejudice #race #race prejudice

Predictions are preposterous. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#preposterous

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#i #prefer #shelter #tend

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#acquiring #china #designs #equipment #gave

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. ↗

— Max Bill

#basic #basic idea #closer #comprehensive #idea

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages. ↗

— Selma Blair

#around #audience #bathroom #been #easy

I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they're playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people. ↗

— Larry Brown

#comments #conference #enjoyed #how #i