#stopped

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#american dream #assassination #car #dream #dreams

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make. ↗

— Kate Adie

#being #coverage #illustration #live #make

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#card #change #i #i tried #legislature

If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel. ↗

— Jennifer Esposito

#i #moved #stopped

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#cynicism #fruit #hard #hip #media

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#beautiful #composing #french #living #paris

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#back #bands #day #did #great

I love to cook, it's one of my most favorite things in the world. That's why I stopped being a vegetarian - I didn't want to serve people things I hadn't tasted myself. ↗

— Claudia Black

#cook #favorite #favorite things #hadn #i

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#being mean #dealt #each #everyone #fourth

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#breakthrough #came #city #else #every