#legend

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year. ↗

— Joe Conason

#amp #anyone #appealed #ben #bush

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#certain #day #i #i am #immediately

I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn't have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

#always #anyway #brad #excited #get

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#centuries #culture #dies #educational #fade

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#every #graceful #legend #lonely #own

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #down #explode #get #i

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #been #legend #lifetime

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead. ↗