#ted

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#acting #auditions #because #blonde #blonde hair

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#choice #consultants #forward #industry #itself

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#buildings #cannot #comprehend #medieval #really

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#ceremony #changes #day #disagree #drill

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. ↗

— Julius Erving

#basketball #before #being #ever #good

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#life #lot #people #reasons #things

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ↗

— Virgil

#help #i #learn #misfortune #myself

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#attorney #attorney general #challenged #criminal #general

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#destruction #i #implements #interested #mass