#spent

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#issues #life #my life #people #sensitive

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#affinity #always #anything #around #attribute

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray. ↗

— James Meade

#been #close #geneva #gilbert #gone

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#before #grand #grand jury #had #i

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was. ↗

— George Michael

#growing #growing up #i #sexuality #spent

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song. ↗

— George Michael

#anything #before #confidence #dinner #done

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#i #joke #laughing #many #me

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#heroes #hollywood #i #movie #several

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#african #african americans #battling #century #major