#ric

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ↗

— Evan Esar

#america #athlete #average #believes #earns

There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#budget #constraints #deadlines #directing #doubt

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#i #nuns #really #run #school

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#counties #located #people #percent #persistent

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#closely #conscience #contemporary #content #examining

The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#american lives #because #bringing #country #guarantee

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#african americans #ever #highest #history #homes

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#first time #hell #i #including #knew

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#because #become #control #difficult #healthy

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is. ↗

— Howard Fineman

#acted #asked #certainly #closely #domestic