#aw

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe. ↗

— Ray Brown

#being #believe #course #everything #frightening

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times. ↗

— Victor Salva

#article #came #definitive #embarrassing #even

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#biggest #ever #i #won

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#obeys #paradise #petty #politician #republic

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#aware #talking #who #you

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#first #first love #first thing #honest #i

It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized! ↗

— Joey Santiago

#arrives #beak #chicken #come #draw

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#awe #beauty #life #optimism #positivity

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#giveth #ottawa #taketh #then