#ric

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#billionaires #breaks #children #coverage #dime

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#being #central #characters #find #grey

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science. ↗

— Franz Boas

#any #been #clearly #development #domain

Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world where plants ate people and botanists lay at the bottom of the food chain. ↗

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

Leading people is like cooking Don’t stir too much
It annoys the ingredients
And spoils the food ↗

— Rick Julian

#rick-julian #tao-te-ching #the-red-pill #food

Today’s breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#historical-fiction #historical-romance #food

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#asks #because #career #dream #films

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#made #possession #riches #them #treasures

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#accent #after #american #american accent #chose

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#environmental #excuse #extreme #gifts #give