#rant

When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#cook #hiring #i #make #me

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite. ↗

— John Conyers

#done #exact #exact opposite #four #grants

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom? ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#die #dying #entails #guarantee #risk

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#imagination #tyrant

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. ↗

— Alex Cox

#critics #down #evidence #genius #goes

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag. ↗

— Larry Craig

#amendment #away #clear #congress #cut

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people. ↗

— Phil Crane

#first #function #government #guarantee #hand

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#america #american #american life #been #consisted

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#delicious #every #every time #father #five