#today

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete. ↗

— Linford Christie

#athletes #earning #funding #getting #had

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#alive #basic #because #being #compose

I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta. ↗

— Joseph Crowley

#believe #bill #brutal #cannot #citizens

We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#because #bunch #conservatives #democratic #democratic process

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time. ↗

— Anthony Davis

#camps #come #could #good #hang

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. ↗

— Bette Davis

#cannot #credulity #days #everybody #excuse

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition. ↗

— Bette Davis

#billed #day #earned #everyone #recognition

Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes. ↗

— Evan Davis

#about #ad #amusing #audience #believe

Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does. ↗

— Viola Davis

#beautiful #beautiful thing #does #future #generation

All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#bathroom #cleaning #i #thinking #today