#rand

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#birds #like #me #people #seals

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#count #grandmother #her #i #influences

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#community #family #father #first #friend

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined. ↗

— Milos Forman

#branded #dangerous #decadence #everybody #first

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#diaper #getting #going #got #grandmother

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#career #classical #college #day #every

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause. ↗

— Al Franken

#agenda #also #bias #brand #cause

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#certain #goodness #grand #great #great man

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#both #brave #close #contrary #culture

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#grandmother #she #stories #told #very