#rita

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. ↗

— Peter Bart

#became #corporations #hollywood #irritant #minor

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

#children #day #each #few #give

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#charitable #considering #contained #currently #disclose

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#care #charitable #each #give #how

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#effort #especially #every #government #government programs

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#heredity #history #inheritance #values #change

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. ↗

— Larry David

#empty #ensure #forty #forty years #generation

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. ↗

— Ray Davies

#crucial #die #disappear #heritage #music

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me. ↗

— Larry Bird

#bothered #got #guy #i #irritated

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value. ↗

— Evan Davis

#aerospace #because #britain #british #cars