#rent

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#different #different kind #different kinds #frank #i

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#different #different characters #fun #games #i

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note. ↗

— David Spade

#honest #i #note #only #play

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. ↗

— James Spader

#arts #boston #common #different #different times

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#children #coping #learn #life #lot

All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#art #beginning #day #form #guess

I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#come #create #find #good #i

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#back #begged #eventually #fraction #heard

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! ↗

— Philip Roth

#boy #die #jewish #man #parents