#thing

The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. ↗

— Sam Ervin

#executive #extend #nothing #out #past

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#fact #food #granted #half #hungry

I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good. ↗

— Julius Erving

#beginning #felt #first #found #game

I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports. ↗

— Julius Erving

#doing #enjoyed #enough #fed #game

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better. ↗

— Julius Erving

#better #could #felt #i #like

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened. ↗

— Julius Erving

#adult life #began #biographies #books #fiction

I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#because #celebrity #celebrity status #different #different things

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#cave #content #difference #emerged #images

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America. ↗

— Bono

#america #anything #britain #british #came

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#clearly #human #human affairs #known #nothing