#want

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part. ↗

— Joe Lando

#down #good #good chance #i #more

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry. ↗

— Michael Landon

#dying #guarantee #i #mind #pay

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth. ↗

— Michael Landon

#fourth #had #i #i can #i love

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV. ↗

— Michael Landon

#i #just #laugh #people #sit

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#because #better #city #common #could

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn. ↗

— Tom Landry

#learn #lose #teach #want #win

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #him

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american culture #black #common #culture #dna

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#beautiful #blend #bottom #brazil #brown