- Nov 07, 2020
Rise Quotes
What lifts us, and what won't stay down.
A quieter image opens this page - rising at dawn to pick berries instead of arguing a point - paired with a grander claim about art's role in lifting up mankind. Related pages include Great.
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- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being dragged by an arthritic donkey across a ploughed field, in northern Poland.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
- Nov 07, 2020
If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's challenges in life that present themselves unexpectedly, and if you rise to them, then those challenges will toughen you up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Upward mobility across classes peaked in the U.S. in the late 19th century. Most of the gains of the 20th century were achieved en masse; it wasn't so much a phenomenon of great numbers of people rising from one class to the next as it was standards of living rising sharply for all classes. You didn't have to be exceptional to rise.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's rise was contingent on wide swaths of the country completely tuning out so-called mainstream media sources, while all too many outlets did a poor job covering 2016.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
- Availability
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- Nov 07, 2020
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020