Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago’s parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. – Thomas Frank
It’s not that I wanted to be an actor; it’s that I didn’t want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group. – Ziyi Zhang
I don’t want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties. – Zainab Salbi
There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group. – William Julius Wilson
It’s hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it’s very presumptuous. – Vidal Sassoon
I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors. – Ted Deutch
When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner’s Performance Group – where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo. – Spalding Gray
Lord Chamberlain’s readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could. – Timothy West
Women are the only ‘oppressed’ group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV. – Warren Farrell
We say that a group united and developed in the royal way, by forces of nature, is a race; a group united and developed by way of might, by human forces, is a state. This, then, is the difference between a race or nationality and a state. – Sun Yat-sen
If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it’s definitely a very eclectic group, is all I’ll say. – Sophia Myles
‘Killer Joe’ provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who share a certain bloodlust. – Tracy Letts
So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That’s, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern. – Stephen Cambone
I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play’s the thing – not the 18-35 year old male age group. – Stephen Tobolowsky
Barbara did the selecting and that’s probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences. – Star Jones
I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college. – Susan Ford
When I’m out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me. – Samantha Mumba
If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. – William Golding
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up. – Yoko Ono
I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It’s not designed for any age group. It’s not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that’s because you need it. – Vanilla Ice
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. – Sean Durkin
Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see ‘an outfit’? France? I don’t want to be anti-French, but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets. – Tom Ford
Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation’s leading colleges become even less diverse. – Wendy Kopp
Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don’t really want to be in a tour group. I like doing it alone or with whomever I’m traveling with. – Tia Mowry
Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key national security group of top officials to take up the issue of terrorism. – Sidney Blumenthal
