#rating

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it. ↗

— Pearl Cleage

#freedom #inspirational #liberating #pearl #wisdom

If we think of the novel and the epic...The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero--a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#ennobling-versus-degenerating #epics-versus-novels #men

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#best #exaggerating #i #knew #nobody

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. ↗

— James Baker

#frustrating #i #lose #margins #narrow

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#changed #different #enormously #fundamentally #grown

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#come #feeling #frustrating #gets #girlfriend

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#been #before #bought #could #criticized

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record. ↗

— Joe Baca

#awarded #civil #civil rights #high #honor

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#films #fritz #got #had #i

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them. ↗

— John Abizaid

#extremists #fashion #former #iraq #members