#tee

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution. ↗

— Evo Morales

#bolivia #constitution #different #framework #goal

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. ↗

— Thomas More

#even #everywhere #gold #hear #itself

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#i #i think #most #self-esteem #think

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#body #both #carving #directions #eye

With songwriting I spend a lot of time living life, accruing all these experiences, journaling, and then by the time I get to the studio I'm teeming with the drive to write. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#drive #experiences #get #i #life

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

#books #chief #esteem #like #passed

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster. ↗

— Kate Moss

#being #braces #child #day #elastic

I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost. ↗

— Randy Moss

#field #had #i #i think #lost

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#day #every #every day #go #grew