#us

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#because #bent #boots #bootstraps #down

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#anyone #anything #anywhere #because #being

I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all. ↗

— Angie Martinez

#anything #because #give #going #hate

By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#allow #bargain #bridges #bush #bush administration

Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us. ↗

— Harpo Marx

#any #child #got #had #i

We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#flash #into #musical #people #period

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand. ↗

— Queen Mary

#first #hand #her #kiss #must

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#browse #countries #different #different countries #enough

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. ↗

— Joseph Lewis

#always #author #been #books #burning

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#claiming #distrusted #easier #fiction #get