#closer

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

#ballot box #box #closer #got #like

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#also #because #been #before #believed

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#closer #despair #dying #feeling #felt

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom. ↗

— Don Gibson

#been #bottom #closer #i #songs

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default. ↗

— Nan Hayworth

#closer #comments #default #dominated #get

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people. ↗

— William Hurt

#bring #closer #help #i #i think

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#devil #i #important #intended #interpretation

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#child #children #closer #cure #day

It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#camera #closer #embraced #filming #final

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#between #board #closer #create #directors