#ago

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#chicago #died #father #him #i

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by. ↗

— Eric Johnston

#assailed #ears #government #government officials #headlong

And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience. ↗

— Davy Jones

#actually #ago #days #did #experience

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#america #biggest #black #black and white #block

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#car #chicago #colors #detroit #gangster

We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#charge #chicago #could #crime #ever

I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time. ↗

— Tom Jones

#clooney #close #days #eye #few

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#ago #besides #came #country #did

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946. ↗

— Henry Taube

#after #aspects #basic #became #between