By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse than that: the families in the top 1 percent owned as much as the families in the bottom 90 percent. Heather Cox Richardson Read Quote
The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group’s 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. Elvis Mitchell Read Quote
The ‘Motown’ detour for me was almost like it wasn’t work. It was more fun than work, and that’s all it takes for me to not be very responsible to other things I should have been paying attention to. Michael McDonald Read Quote
My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all the things a kid didn’t need to see or hear on film sets. So, acting was just a fun, breezy, extracurricular activity for me. Kellie Martin Read Quote
For years I felt that I didn’t have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked. Venus Williams Read Quote
On the one hand, I’m this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that’s where our culture is most in transition and where there’s likely to be conflict. Chris Bohjalian Read Quote
For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president. Andrew Rosenthal Read Quote
The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them. Susan Hill Read Quote
My dad cut my hair once – I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years. Alexa Chung Read Quote
