John Lahr Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, ‘West Side Story’ incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century. – John Lahr Age Quotes American Quotes Cars Quotes Century Quotes Dream Quotes Fifties Quotes Fins Quotes Furniture Quotes Golden Quotes Incarnates Quotes Momentum Quotes Parabolic Quotes Populuxe Quotes Shapes Quotes Story Quotes Tail Quotes Twentieth Quotes West Quotes Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll’s doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.’s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts. Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot,’ billed as ‘the laugh sensation of two continents,’ made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.
Sayed Kashua How I’d like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn’t even care to know the prime minister’s name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. – Sayed Kashua
Jesse Jackson You know, people’d always ask ‘Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?’ They never seen the house I’m running from. – Jesse Jackson
EqualityMarriageTed Lieu The marriage equality ruling establishes for the American public where the majority already are – which is that love is love and discriminating against a human being based on love is idiotic. – Ted Lieu
Roseanne Barr My husband and I didn’t sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. – Roseanne Barr
Michael NutterRespect You get respect when you give respect. That’s how you get respect. – Michael Nutter
ComputersTyler Cowen There’s so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it’s a pretty small percentage of the population. – Tyler Cowen
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