#reo

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#been #british #had #hold #mile

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#certain way #dress #everyone #fit #into

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#because #incapable #people #put #roles

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#been #behave #democratic #fair #focus

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#always #being #consider #globalization #interests

I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#aggressive #control #fate #fates #feel

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things. ↗

— John Jewel

#among #any #beams #beautiful #comfort

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#choreography #did #each #figure #had

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#criminal #destructive #ethnic #good #good way