#cia

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#cultural #governing #health #living #losing

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#actually #bands #deserve #especially #ever

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot. ↗

— William Randolph Hearst

#become #even #his #job #keep

We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037. ↗

— Joe Heck

#bankrupt #go #know #medicare #security

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. ↗

— Jascha Heifetz

#appreciate #beethoven #composer #composers #contemporary

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#better #desirable #exist #genuine #great

If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream? ↗

— S. Balaram

#social-responsibility #design

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#especially #frightening #giving #i #incredibly

Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#politics-of-the-united-states #war #faith

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style! ↗

— Ken Hensley

#because #classical #classical music #completely #crazy