#rounds

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#also #american #army #carried #color

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#been #competitive #dozen #given #house

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be. ↗

— Martin Mull

#backgrounds #because #disparate #exact #histories

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#car #does #front #hotel #hotel room

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds. ↗

— Ryan Phillippe

#backgrounds #broader #different #different ages #diversity

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses. ↗

— Jon Porter

#done #fired #first-hand #five #front

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#aspirations #backgrounds #better #education #guarantee

The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically. ↗

— Alan Price

#backgrounds #basically #came #come #different

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#being #coming #culture #deeper #dig

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#exactly #grounds #poetic #poets #prose