#rant

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#australian #back #born #both #british

I love New York... I think it's the best city in the world. As far as cities go, everything's there. I think it's so vibrant. I love the people, I think they're honest, in your face. If they don't like you, they'll say, 'Get out of my way,' if they like you they'll slap you on the back and support you. It's a very intoxicating environment to be in. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#back #best #cities #city #environment

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#could #ear #entered #epoch #fifteenth

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#action #add #always #around #because

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#countries #demonstrate #english #european #european countries

I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans. ↗

— Billy Joel

#becomes #been #historically #i #i think

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you. ↗

— Elton John

#comes #get #going #guarantee #hiv

As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards just a bum. ↗

— Nunnally Johnson

#bum #harvest #just #migrant #soon

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bestowed #brought #cannot #deserved #few

Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#being there #makes #more #neighbor #noisy