#si

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#career #entire #george #george harrison #going

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#cigarettes #cocktails #dressing #drinking #glamourous

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#call #considered #got #i #inconvenience

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#contract #could #independent #kind #mgm

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#could #helpful #hint #hoosiers #hoping

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#any #collapse #communist #democracy #despite

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#does #envision #eyes #future #going

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#american #american people #concepts #convinced #democracy

That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#board #children #critical #extraordinary #first

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#appoint #bring #council #country #disarm