#latin

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#chicago #contemplating #feel #like #you

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#beforehand #done #film #had #head

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#categories #color #difficult #fascinating #find

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#doing #drama #fox #i #imagine

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. ↗

— Ang Lee

#big screen #books #comic #comic books #excitement

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#back #citizens #coming #contemplating #heard

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#always #exciting #last #life #only

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#america #asia #brought #countries #crises

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. ↗

— John Locke

#cases #determine #human #human society #love