#ali

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#being #easy #fantasized #growing #growing up

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#false #feeling #intolerable #sentimentality

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking. ↗

— Jay Leno

#chicago cubs #choking #cubs #i #october

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. ↗

— Jay Leno

#basketball #basketball player #days #election #former

I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#acting #ancient #art #fundamentalist #funny

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#both #capitalist #class #economic #him

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#force #inestimable #living #practical #sense

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#american cinema #cinema #did #disappears #even

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead. ↗

— Jewel

#dead #feel #half #i #i feel

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much