#your

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. ↗

— Cory Booker

#asked #being #class #class warfare #costly

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bona fide #doing #falls #fide #ground

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up. ↗

— Les Brown

#fall #get #look #up #you

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#because #bored #boredom #complete #death

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#fame #money #notoriety #out #own

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#boring #boring things #difficult #interesting #interesting things

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. ↗

— Henry Brooke

#book #cannot #compared #early #get

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#conversation #e-mail #exchange #intimate #more

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#ever #figure #get #good #guy