#topped

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#beforehand #done #film #had #head

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#decade #done #got #had #i

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#child #every #found #giving #globe

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#celebrities #country #culture #even #fat

We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore. ↗

— Rue McClanahan

#ago #anymore #available #clothing #doing

If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen. ↗

— John McEnroe

#another #around #ever #game #greatest

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#could #handle #i #lot #more

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#being #broadcast #business #cable #dying

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.' ↗

— Olivia Munn

#applause #basketball #because #give #going