#ton

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S. ↗

— Eduardo Galeano

#almost #am #america #anything #astonished

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us. ↗

— Kevin Garnett

#drills #each #helped #interact #old

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#black #boston #democrats #hating #history

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US. ↗

— Pat Garrett

#artists #band #big #buzz #depend

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#bus #carolina #colored #downtown #england

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. ↗

— Ira Glass

#big #characters #counts #emotional #fiction

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#age #also #baggage #becoming #bit

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#angeles #atlanta #big #century #cities

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#dam #environmental #instance #larger #mine

No one ever won a war by dying for their country. They won by making the other son-of-a-bitch die for his ↗

— James Bradley

#courage