#cal

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#called #i #me #never #other

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#change #clothing #dress #musical #musical style

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#despise #enemy #him #seriously #strategically

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#central #contradiction #dominant #each #historical

Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#background #both #carry #classical #classical music

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. ↗

— Paul Getty

#circumstances #cynical #events #made #rich

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.' ↗

— Emily Giffin

#bags #big #call #clutches #husband

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#balance #change #class #contributing #determination

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#days #dizzying #experimental #feel #female

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#biological #embedded #organisms #related #us