#stead

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #become #cease #city #collection

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them. ↗

— Jason Kidd

#football #guy #heart #i #instead

Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#been #beer #before #consumption #country

Well, I think one of the problems with 'Birds of Prey' was there were too many cooks in that kitchen. The studio, the producers, the network, all had very different visions of what that should be. They should have just let Laeta Kalogridis control that. Instead they decided to try to get their hands in the mix. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#control #cooks #decided #different #get

A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#blaze #directors #doing #else #even

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#against #barack #barack obama #because #been

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#big #big government #cap-and-trade #energy #government

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#chose #founding #freedom #government #instead

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#american #american culture #baskets #beads #contemporary

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#before #characters #classic #direct #doing