#v

Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity. ↗

— Daryn Kagan

#find #focused #giving #head #i

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#america #any #anything #between #called

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#different #direction #experience #felt #history

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#easy #go #good #how #hungry

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#liberate #live #prejudices #which #world

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#existence #got #i #just #make

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#cool thing #deal #difference #different #different kind

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#constitutional #else #irrelevant #job #know

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#conscience #i #i think #job #leave

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#just #matter #political #political views #views