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In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete. ↗

— John Legend

#athlete #early #football #i #kids

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#cameras #heavy #heavy metal #heavy weight #lightweight

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#came #coming #confusion #express #i

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. ↗

— Joseph R. McCarthy

#communist #communist party #department #five #hand

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#developing #did #done #experiments #first

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#belief #college #college students #commencement #into

Things ain't what they used to be and never were. ↗

— Will Rogers

#things #used #were

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#grew #how #into #just #kind

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#adult #any #barking #being #had

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#could #dollars #falling #far #income