#someone

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room. ↗

— Eric Liu

#became #become #citizens #citizenship #conference

You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet. ↗

— Ed Macauley

#beat #because #give #meet #percent

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. ↗

— Barry Mann

#different kind #direction #else #get #go

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. ↗

— Barry Mann

#creative #crop #hard #harvest #how

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready. ↗

— Steve Martin

#actor #because #constructing #else #first

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.' ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#doctor #i #like #mean #now

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#go #letting #loving #setting #someone

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.' ↗

— Juan Williams

#different #fox #guy #hear #hypocrite

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#else #heard #heartbeat #i #like

He was like the other half of myself,' says Boris...Ulrich says, 'You haven't lost {him}, you know. I don't know if it helps to say that. I lost a friend once myself, and I know how it goes. 'He'll find his way inside you, and you'll carry him onward. Behind your heartbeat, you'll hear another one, faint and out of step. People will say you are speaking his opinons, or your hair has turned like his. 'There are no more facts about him -- that part is over. Now is the time for essential things...Gradually you'll grow older than him, and love him as your son. 'You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being. ↗

— Rana Dasgupta

#devotion #friendship #grief #grieving #kindred-spirits