#strong

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#could #figure #him #i #louis

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#fear #freedom #stronger #than #tyranny

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#economy #environment #healthy #healthy environment #sacrifice

I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#doubts #exploring #fun #get #had

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#kid #own #sense #strong #strong sense

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#best #dread #enough #hell #i

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#conviction #done #many #measures #must

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. ↗

— John Webster

#checks #defects #friend #great #his

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect. ↗

— George Weinberg

#fight #independence #lives #men #showing