#zed

So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one. ↗

— Pat Summerall

#available #became #because #celebrity #celebrity status

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#built #contradiction #criticized #discuss #discussion

I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#absolute #amazed #around #asinine #correct

The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#am #baby #between #beyond #cry

We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized. ↗

— Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#denmark #must #opportunity #seized

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. ↗

— George Takei

#came #camp #first #i #out

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#expression #freedom #i #penalized #place

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#hard #lest #soft #squeezed #too

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chords #concert #first #first time #get

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#childhood #essential #first #i #inside