#arte

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#confidence #defeated #even #life #race

I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#believe #bill #committee #dakota #economy

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#after #apple #apple ii #bought #i

I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#already #artist #disciplined #drama #go

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind. ↗

— Freddie Hubbard

#coming #couple #fred #had #heard

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it. ↗

— Janis Ian

#black #black and white #bus #child #couple

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#because #finished #i #interested #invention

Trojan, Durex, Lifestyles, Trojan Magnum (oh yeah, my three foot cock definitely needed those), Contempo, Vivid and Rough Rider. Seriously? There was a condom brand called Rough Rider? Why not just go with Fuck Her Hard and be done with it? I stood in the "Family Planning" aisle of the grocery store, trying to decide which condom brand was more effective. Family Planning…give me a break. How many people came to this aisle because they were planning a family? They came to this aisle to AVOID planning a family. --Carter ↗

— Tara Sivec

#condom-funny #humor #family

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why. ↗

— John Fahey

#book #bought #chord #country #did

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one. ↗

— Charles Evers

#down #go #got #headquarters #republican