#san

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#adam #adam sandler #better #between #brooks

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#certain #darned #governments #had #know

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit. ↗

— Shelley Morrison

#complacent #complicit #heads #our #put

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. ↗

— Emile Zola

#having #i #myself #nuisance #often

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#ever #forget #house #houses #i

Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#children #days #earthquake #else #forget

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear..Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#sandman #dreams

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth. ↗

— George Weinberg

#coming #gays #out #sanity #self-worth

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#free #free lunch #get #go #good