#aid

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. ↗

— James A. Michener

#courage #know #ought #takes #you

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?' ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#band #because #director #ellis #excited

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. ↗

— Herbert Read

#i #modern #said #symbol #work

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. ↗

— Marcus Valerius Martial

#comes #glory #late #our #paid

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#getting #i #like #paid #public

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on. ↗

— Chris Martin

#agree #although #most #negatively #ones

Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream. ↗

— Mel Martinez

#al #american #american dream #attorney #attorney general

I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#anybody #asleep #everybody #fall #games

We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.' ↗

— Susana Martinez

#businesses #car #chuck #damned #families