#rote

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? ↗

— Gale Norton

#environment #government #government regulation #heavy-handed #only

We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. ↗

— Joshua A. Norton

#churches #command #crowned #emperor #hebrew

I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself. ↗

— Brandy Norwood

#did #i #my own #myself #own

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book. ↗

— Don Novello

#article #book #enough #esquire #had

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#books #feature #history #history books #losers

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#achieved #ammunition #brand #failed #grasp

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it. ↗

— Gary Numan

#could #ever #good #happy #i

When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life. ↗

— Nancy O'Dell

#ages #albums #boxes #first #full

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#different #different world #internet #movements #protest

It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#come #corporations #freedom #goes #half