#posed

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#american #discussion #general #going #ideas

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.' ↗

— Alvin Dark

#giants #motto #new #shut #shut up

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#i #initially #me #nixon #opposed

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#got #great #i #i think #jessica

Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know? ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#behind #being #bit #bored #completely

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#attractive #believe #latin #latin america #skinny

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#any #being #broader #context #experience

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. ↗

— Mel Torme

#arranger #author #career #directions #give

My uncle died in 1987. I unfortunately - I saw it happen before it happened, which was really, really hard because I was 16 years old and I thought, like, Well, I'm seeing this. I'm supposed to stop this. And I couldn't. ↗

— John Edward

#before #died #happen #happened #hard