#rated

I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#american cities #children #cities #cross #families

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#attention #could #experience #filmmaker #frustrated

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#body #catholics #christ #church #communion

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. ↗

— Valentino Garavani

#clothes #decade #exaggerated #fashion #favourite

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#colours #emotional #full #i #saturated

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#overrated #vastly #virtue

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. ↗

— Charles Eames

#architecture #degenerated #design #direct #idea

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#before #book #company #done #face

I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#beaten #down #going #horrible #i