#ch

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do. ↗

— Colin Hay

#found #hard #i #just #over

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it. ↗

— Colin Hay

#bunch #exactly #how #intentions #me

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.' ↗

— Colin Hay

#because #began #boring #changed #changes

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time. ↗

— Colin Hay

#about #always #anymore #because #consciously

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well. ↗

— Colin Hay

#australia #being #california #dreams #find

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#culture #else #everybody #everybody else #given

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. ↗

— Yves Tanguy

#community #geography #i #interests #nor

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

#great #hinges #human #love #sympathies

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#been #emergencies #eroded #individual #individual liberty