#pro

I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die, but I'm still just taking one day at a time. ↗

— Kristin Chenoweth

#achieve #been #before #day #die

I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese. ↗

— Phil Collins

#because #bother #bread #cheese #cutting

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#age #banking #banking system #conventional #faith

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#baby #boom #discovered #fear #generation

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#british #cheap #country #food #garden

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money on a very rigid formula all across the country, with a certain percentage to each state. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#across #agree #certain #country #criticisms

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#because #flood #going #home #homes

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#better #bread #compromise #half #loaf

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#i #i can #just #just be #overseeing

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#between #books #calls #gray #gray area