“You can only be new once,”
Steve Martin, comedian, actor and author, heard on NPR this afternoon from a November 2007 interview with Renee Montagne.
Just once?
In context, the quote refers to “new” before a particular audience; a specific time; a place. Martin reinvented his stand up comedy act, then reinvented himself as an actor and author. [...]
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
– Frank Outlaw
“Frank Outlaw” doesn’t seem to exist. The quotation is attributed here to “Elizabeth C.”
Here is another, more poetic variation found at Quoteland.com:
“Be careful of your thoughts, for [...]
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.
African Proverb
We’ve become a nation of gossip-mongers from the Mean Girls growing up to the celebrity gossip that clogs the grocery magazine racks and TV airwaves to our political discourse. Gossip holds sway.
“Gossip” used to be a pejorative but society rewards the best gossips with TV hosting contracts.
Nothing new under this sun. The Bible discusses the [...]
Justice is what love looks like in public.
Cornel West
This was on radio today, part of a narrative about the anti-slavery documentary Call + Response.
Open your eyes to the world and, perhaps, to your own neighborhood. The American Civil War did not end slavery.
