#cia

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#audience #cannot #doctor #doing #feeling

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#i #i can #socialism #understand

I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#any #associated #before #flight #i

There was a lot of light and a lot of rumbling and vibration, especially the first minute or minute-and-a-half. And then after about two minutes, when the solid rocket boosters separated, the ride got a lot smoother. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#after #especially #first #got #light

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#make #official #outside #own #reality

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#abroad #along #article #attempts #been

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else. ↗

— Chad Smith

#else #good #i #i do #musician

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing. ↗

— Ben Okri

#away #both #common #doing #draw

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. ↗

— Ben Okri

#always #bit #bore #challenging #completely

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#against #artificial #baseball #behind #enforcing