#read

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#citizen #english #language #official #our

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#american citizen #any #assimilate #become #cherished

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.' ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#book #code #i #read #vinci

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#constitution #country #established #everyone #extend

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#already #business #businesses #contract #drama

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#blanket #cloth #color #thread #woven

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#any #been #career #character #game

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#around #bad #good #horrible #how

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #been #bottom #bottom line #could

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#better #better person #child #entertained #fiction