#poo

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#against #amateur #back #because #discrimination

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#england #glamour #going #growing #growing up

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#born #either #first #get #house

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#babies #brazil #especially #everywhere #families

Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#barack #barack obama #between #carter #differences

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#ever #gaps #poor #rich #richer

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. ↗

— Eric Liu

#action #affirmative #affirmative action #arguing #cal

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#feel #guess #hard #hard work #hours

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#alaska #any #even #everything #grew