#rio

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#believe #cater #congress #controlled #democrats

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions. ↗

— Emma Watson

#ask #curious #fame #friends #just

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#british #courage #despair #every #except

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#before #college #first #got #graduated

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#angeles #availability #coconut #committed #dinner

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#between #century #come #comfortable #done

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#because #completely #confident #go #hopeless

The creative processes are so mysterious. ↗

— Jimmy Webb

#mysterious #processes

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#fast #growth #india #just #lot

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#did #ever #fertile #figure #how