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In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died. ↗

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#car #every #going #i #little

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules. ↗

— Joan Jett

#allowed #decided #figured #follow #going

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #authorities #been #beijing #book

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #apology #been #being #chinese

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#asked #entitlement #me #owed

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?' ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#around #back #children #feel #gay

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#bend #calmness #catholic #catholic church #church

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bestowed #bounty #manner #part #receives