#cian

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#journalist #learned #politician #probably #ridiculous

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#data #expert #how #i #i think

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks. ↗

— Norman Granz

#does #ellington #leader #movie #musician

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. ↗

— Brian Greene

#bend #classical #classical composers #composers #like

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#before #being #first #gone #had

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#cornered #homosexual #i #market #morticians

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#always #certain #certain degree #degree #going

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

— William Randolph Hearst

#become #even #his #job #keep

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

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