#trapped

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american history #been #color #contributions #history

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#get #giving #idea #image #important

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. ↗

— John Olver

#antarctica #attention #became #carbon #carbon dioxide

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! ↗

— George A. Romero

#does #filmmaker #genre #get #i

I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#because #i #like #shoes #stardom

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#as far as #belongs #birth #circumstances #every

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#get #i #musical #style #trapped

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#doing #look #one thing #out #people

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#make #new #old #oldest #stories