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What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized. ↗

— Walter Washington

#came #changed #city #greed #hate

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding. ↗

— Stand Watie

#call #children #contrary #friends #god

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to make another one, but we have no plans. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#always #another #because #different #director

I liked things better when I didn't understand them. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#i #liked #them #things #understand

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#down #forced #freedom #gave #hide

Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here. ↗

— Karrie Webb

#i #sitting #sometimes #understand #why

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#anyone #coming #complete #disability #entry

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion. ↗

— Noah Webster

#christian #christian religion #citizens #correct #desire

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#back #back-up #get #go #i

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#effort #farce #few #few things #gives