#were

We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something. ↗

— Buck Owens

#everything #little #little bit #make #something

He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great. ↗

— Major Owens

#cost #costs #executives #eyes #great

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#bid #deny #empowered #our #past

I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

#born #gay #help #i #relative

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#already #always #could #else #felt

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach. ↗

— Larry Page

#beach #company #ended #long #long time

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american writers #been #breakthroughs #continuity #did

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#black #think #were #white #you

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#awe #deprived #discourage #ensue #horrid

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anything #best #bullies #completely #devil