#being

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner. ↗

— Ma Jian

#cruise #like #living #london #luxury

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #apology #been #being #chinese

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#amendment #anything #away #being #believe

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative. ↗

— JoJo

#being #creating #creative #first #i

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#again #apple #beginner #being #best

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes? ↗

— Steve Jobs

#being #bigger #bmw #market #market share

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us. ↗

— Billy Joel

#beings #completely #crazy #feel #human

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter. ↗

— Billy Joel

#definitely #fighter #i #lover #prefer

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #canned #frozen #heard #lately

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift. ↗

— Billy Joel

#being #believe #born #express #gift