#tripp

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. ↗

— Ilya Ehrenburg

#character development #development #education #given #knowledge

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are. ↗

— Spike Lee

#black #brought #comes #define #down

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there. ↗

— Method Man

#documentary #going #got #i #pick

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#build #built #each #five #gradually

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#album #albums #becomes #bloated #definitely

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#cross #cross country #nah #polls #skiers

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#exposing #i #just #lousy #made

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ↗

— Barbara Johnson

#feel #gears #idle #like #motor

People think that I changed my name. I could've been an actress, a superhero, or a stripper. ↗

— January Jones

#been #changed #could #i #name

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits