#up

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#close #come #dad #i #magic

Be the kind of person who takes supplements -- then skip the supplements. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#vitamins #food

You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#action #believe #believe-and-achieve #bench #dress

Leave the talking for others and live by walking. Go, go and go extra mile and you will be a true owner of what belongs to you ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#belong #beyond #destiny #extra #extra-mile

We support President Truman's civil rights program. ↗

— Eugenie Anderson

#civil rights #president #program #rights #support

You could forgive a lot if somebody was there to take care of things until you grew up. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#grow-up #forgiveness

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#fear #losing #power #power corrupts #scourge

As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests. I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as knowi that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free. p216

— Lynn Hersha

#control #free-will #government-abuse #manipulation #military

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beliefs #beware #brainwashed #conviction #freedom-of-speech

Writing has to support itself. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#support #writing