#trap

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american history #been #color #contributions #history

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#get #i #musical #style #trapped

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#capable #capitalists #himself #his #lifting

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#doing #look #one thing #out #people

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#make #new #old #oldest #stories

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue. ↗

— Walter Martin

#backing #book #conference #extrapolate #general

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

#continent #crime #culturally #economically #mexico

It was a bright, clear afternoon in the late fall that pretty Miss Cable drove up in her trap and waited at the curb for her father to come forth from his office in one of Chicago's tallest buildings. ↗

— George Barr McCutcheon

#bright #buildings #cable #chicago #clear

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#act #acting #addiction #attention #being

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it. ↗

— Dudley Moore

#am #body #i #i am #i can