#we

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ignore #instruments #irrelevant #movements #once

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!' ↗

— Ray Liotta

#blow #comedy #depp #father #guy

Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#blow #fat #had #i #later

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#development #emission #energy #energy independence #example

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#adequate #benefits #dearly #healthcare #heroes

There is a beautiful consistency about Buzzard; he is a porcupine among men, with his quills always flared. If he won a new car with a raffle ticket bought in his name by some momentary girlfriend, he would recognize it at once as a trick to con him out of a license fee. He would denounce the girl as a hired slut, beat up the raffle sponsor, and trade off the car for five hundred Seconals and a gold-handled cattle prod. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#beauty

Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were. ↗

— Tara Lipinski

#god #going #how #kept #matter

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#developed #easy #enough #hotel #hotel room

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#air #between #convinced #head #journalism

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#contract #first #first principle #legitimate #only