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Tonys Actor Roundtable: ‘Hamilton’ Star, 6 Other Broadway Standouts on Diversity, Rude Audiences (aka 7 White Dudes and One PoC actor on Diversity, despite this being the most diverse season of Broadway) 

“The rapid progress true science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon: it is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter…” —Benjamin Franklin

America’s first international celebrity wasn’t an actor, singer, or athlete—he was a citizen scientist.

“The truth is that I have been drawn by the history of the times from Physical & mathematical sciences, which were my passion, to those of politics & government towards which I had naturally no inclination.” —Thomas Jefferson

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson is famously the founding father who penned this iconic phrase, but his idea of “the pursuit of happiness” would’ve included more science and less politics.

Cindy: Hey… can I be a Jew?

Rabbi: No.

Cindy: Can I be a Jew?

Rabbi: No.

Cindy: Can I be a Jew?

Rabbi: You really want this? Sincerely? Not ‘cause this one’s trying to blackmail me for something stupid when I was 19 or for broccoli with your dinner? What is this for you?

Cindy: Honestly, I think I found my people. I was raised in a church where I was told to believe and pray. And if I was bad, I’d go to hell. And if I was good, I’d go to heaven. And if I’d ask Jesus, he’d forgive me and that was that. And here y’all are sayin’ ain’t no hell. Ain’t sure about heaven. And if you do something wrong, you got to figure it out yourself. And as far as God’s concerned, it’s your job to keep asking questions and to keep learning and to keep arguing. It’s like a verb. It’s like … you do God. And that’s a lot of work, but I think I’m in, as least as far as I can see it. I mean, maybe I’ll learn more and say fuck the whole thing, I mean, but I wanna learn more, and I think I gotta be in it to do that. You know… Does that make sense? Shit, did I just talk myself out of it?

Rabbi: Ask me again.

Cindy: Can I be a Jew?

Second of all, as a contextual note, the rabbi said no for a reason. In Jewish conversion, one of the steps is that you must be discouraged at least three times. This comes from the story of Ruth, where Naomi told her not to follow her back to the Jewish tribe three times before giving in.

In 1992, the number of women in the Senate jumped up to 7, and it was popularly referred to as “the year of the woman.”

Mikulski said “calling 1992 the ‘year of the woman’ makes it sound like the ‘year of the caribou’ or ‘year of the asparagus.’ We’re not a fad, a fancy, or a year.”

The next year, the rebellion happened. That means women couldn’t wear pants in the senate when Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was first released.