#rent

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#burned #family #family members #get #got

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#commitment #dancer #difficult #force #frankly

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#business #completely #did #different #entertainment

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cell #cells #chicken #conditions #different

It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved any differently - and I have sisters, and would hate for them to be treated badly by guys. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#badly #behaved #differently #girlfriend #guys

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#benefits #current #guaranteed #pay-as-you-go #person

For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#back #different #figure #getting #go

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#boarding school #bus #few #home #i

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#ago #because #different #government #just

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.' ↗

— Juan Williams

#different #fox #guy #hear #hypocrite