#try

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves. ↗

— Pam Grier

#air #air force #brat #community #country

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player. ↗

— Brian Griese

#am #ball player #better #capable #come

We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#cannot #country #creating #defeat #division

I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today. ↗

— Steven Levitan

#acknowledge #analyst #being #content #easy

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters. ↗

— Eugene Levy

#around #bring #characters #common #common man

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. ↗

— Kurt Lewin

#something #truly #try #understand #want

Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#communication

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#anything #athlete #because #being #best

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. ↗

— Lucan

#men #mighty #name #only #shadow

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#dress #impossible #language #lie #naked