#bout

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have? ↗

— Eminem

#everything #fail #i #i do #likes

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing. ↗

— Eminem

#best #doing #ever #feel #feel good

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#acting #also #dark #dark places #energy

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that. ↗

— John Entwistle

#am #anyone #band #happy #heard

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#because #eight #helps #i #learn

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#basically #believed #cook #cooking #else

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#believed #cooking #else #hard #mother

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#community #concerns #current #efforts #i