#pull

I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#anybody #barriers #because #certain #certain things

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#adult life #bound #flinching #i #i tried

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#appreciate #because #boot #done #failed

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#consists #counting #example #for example #government

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? ↗

— David McCullough

#deciding #factor #history #how #human

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#learning #like #merely #more #never

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#countless #effort #fingers #hand #harry

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats. ↗

— Charlie Melancon

#off #out #people #pulling #republicans

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#depth #i #off #pull #record

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#asked #because #been #before #car