“Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.” MeanSaidBodyDrunkDaddyDrankJimmyJimmy Stewart Author:Carol Burnett
“No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.” WayWantWritingArtStillsMatterActingClassDesignDirectorsMajorsTheaterNo Matter WhatSceneryFreshmanActing ClassesUcla Author:Carol Burnett
“I always had a weak chin because we couldn't afford to correct my bite, which could have been corrected with braces. So the chin was always weak. And I always was - kind of hated my profile. And I thought wouldn't it be nice someday to feel the rain on your chin without having to look up.” FeelsLooksKindHas BeensNiceRainWeakHatedLook UpSomedayBitesBeing NiceCould Have BeenChinsProfileBraces Author:Carol Burnett
“It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.” CommunityIdentityMembersIncrediblesKill Me Author:Amartya Sen
“I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.” PhilosophyHostile Author:Amartya Sen
“The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.” ReasonLossLibertyEconomicMajorsEconomic Freedom Author:Amartya Sen
“You cant prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why dont the governments stop them?” GovernmentEffortHalfFamine Author:Amartya Sen
“If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You cant win many elections after a famine, and you dont like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.” IfsGivingGovernmentPoliticalWinningPartyOpinionDemocracyElectionNewspapersVulnerableOppositionBad ThingsParliamentIncentivesPublic OpinionFamineCan't WinOpposition Parties Author:Amartya Sen
“There was very little art in my childhood. 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.” LittlesArtArtistInterestChildhoodPaintingBirdSouthRaisedLocalsMuseumsMinorsCarolinaSouth CarolinaCharlestonCharleston South Carolina Author:Jasper Johns
“Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.” CountryMatterStatesPartyMilitaryIndiaUnionsChinaBritishAdministrationSovietIrelandDictatorSoviet UnionFamineEthiopiaSomalia Author:Amartya Sen