#the

My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#advanced age #after #age #apparently #birth

In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy. ↗

— James Chanos

#banks #because #china #instruments #loan

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#called #come #crises #hawaii #peace

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#day #four #i #know #office

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do. ↗

— Margaret Forster

#adored #fell #heights #i #love

Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#art college #college #got #high #high school

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#because #day #down #hang #i

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

#her #line #listened #long #long line

Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not. ↗

— Katie Couric

#absolutely #absolutely not #advance #agree #another

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#development #equal #equal right #equity #eternal