#span

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#any #german #i #looked #other

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#comes #cycle #destroying #employ #end

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness. ↗

— Montel Williams

#blackness #country #definition #every #hispanic

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#always #am #american #i #i am

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#attention #attention span #brain #i #little

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #condition #did #elements #him

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #been #broadened #day #discovery

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. ↗

— John Green

#attention #attention spans #become #bells #bells and whistles

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us. ↗

— George Grey

#better #bit #countryman #desert #distress

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. ↗

— Pam Grier

#african american #american #black #concise #dark