#raise

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy. ↗

— Dan Bartlett

#economy #hurt #only #raises #taxes

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. ↗

— John Cleese

#father #flattered #god #know #like

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#change the world #consciousness #general #only #poets

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#catholic #deeply #i #i was raised #raised

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker. ↗

— America Ferrera

#angeles #because #born #enough #how

I was raised on the Internet. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i was raised #internet #raised

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ↗

— Sally Field

#eyes #i #i was raised #judge #kind

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#i #lived #new #new orleans #orleans

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