#ratio

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration! ↗

— Sara Blakely

#cut #feet #i #inspiration #moment

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#brother #children #enormous #generations #grandmother

Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation. ↗

— Roma Downey

#apprentice #came #charity #concert #donald

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#awesome #baby #boom #brooklyn #generation

It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#because #country #hostile #made #old

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#fixed #i #maintained #means #now

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#home #home life #life #lot #separation

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. ↗

— Leon Kass

#generation #going #lineage #make #next