#ric

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood. ↗

— Will Smith

#being #black #especially #hollywood #i

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky. ↗

— Nate Silver

#i #too #tricky #trying

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense. ↗

— Nate Silver

#almost #american #american economy #between #chaos

Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks. ↗

— Ron Silver

#attacks #concessions #east #face #forced

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anyway #around #could #east #europe

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again. ↗

— Dave Sim

#american #happen #just #keep #leftists

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#claim #culture #deepest #derive #existence

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#enclose #equal #equal right #formations #great

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die. ↗

— Nina Simone

#die #going #i #i think #most

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#american people #anything #felt #good #off