#tend

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brutality #could #kindliness #laugh #mix

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there. ↗

— Spike Lee

#get #intend #lot #movies #stuff

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces. ↗

— Spike Lee

#ensemble #favour #films #i #lines

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#human world #i #i can #laptop #part

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#arts #been #cartoonist #else #extended

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me. ↗

— Adam Levine

#everyone #go #i #loves #me

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#doing #fabulous #know #looks #pretends

Social Security Number Cards by themselves were never intended to be personal identity documents because they cannot confirm that a person presenting a card is actually the person whose name appears on the card. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#appears #because #cannot #card #cards