#ay

When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love. ↗

— Joan Jett

#audience #best #corny #dumb #feeling

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#away #follow #give #i #law

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together. ↗

— Jewel

#always #big #business #career #could

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#astonished #fantasy #forest #i #larger

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ↗

— Ma Jian

#basic #become #beings #expression #freedom

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence. ↗

— Ma Jian

#days #decades #each #gone #i

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#because #bible #every #god #hotel

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

#other #paper #ruled #way #write

The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#biological #bomb #borders #bring #could

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries. ↗

— Charles Grassley

#both #complacency #hurts #taxpayers