#d

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#actually #convenient #i #interested #limitation

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#age #although #becoming #college #coming

I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point. ↗

— Edie Falco

#feel #files #five #forensic #friends

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#giants #height #i #i do #sisters

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#doctors #first #had #heart #i

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest. ↗

— Edie Falco

#aware #been #i #i think #interested

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness. ↗

— Tim Bray

#bit #dollars #either #enterprise #i

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups. ↗

— Tim Bray

#better #community #cost #deploy #developers

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero. ↗

— Phil Bredesen

#clearly #ground #ground zero #new #represents

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you. ↗

— Donna Brazile

#defining #front #money #opponent #out