#aw

The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet. ↗

— Martin L. Gross

#ends #laws #little #make #meet

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#must #nation #punishment #than #totalitarian

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#democracy #law #march #rule #rule of law

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things. ↗

— Christopher Guest

#am #appear #awareness #become #earnest

The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song. ↗

— Jerry Harrison

#immediately #people #sell #song #vocals

Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#back #became #before #closely #course

Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#also #before #camera #ceremony #etc

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#assignment #become #being #creative #drawing

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#away #become #beings #come #discovering

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often. ↗

— Uta Hagen

#awhile #event #happen #human #makes