#sm

250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#along #bus #cheer #day #dublin

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. ↗

— Claude McKay

#based #castle #foundation #idealism #like

I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#being #being smart #confidence #feel #get

I'm lucky I have good metabolism and I'm very grateful for that. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#grateful #i #lucky #metabolism #very

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room. ↗

— Carol Channing

#dressing room #enough #goes #hit #know

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#be happy #becoming #causes #consider #denying

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assault #capitalism #children #comfortable #conviction

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#america #atheist #calls #christian #conviction

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#artistry #better #book #creativity #escapism

The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#class #districts #florida #limits #local