#tick

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#celery #clothes #cool #giant #i

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#buy #car #carded #crayons #down

Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#carded #figure #get #happened #i

You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! ↗

— Joe Biden

#better #better off #bin #bumper #bumper sticker

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#asking #dollars #millions #millions of dollars #sell

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#american tradition #around #hold #just #native

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board. ↗

— James Bovard

#becomes #board #democratic #democratic system #destroy

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#boxes #comics #fairly #friends #great

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#educated #lose #lost #lot #people

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#alternative #ask #change #change the world #degree