#die

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. ↗

— June Jordan

#arabic #arabs #being #country #go

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#bold #future #grasp #greatest #here

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#country #determine #die #going #got

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there. ↗

— Bill Kreutzmann

#audience #body #cool #dig #drums

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#audience #creates #dance #different #love

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#another #another way #contingent #embodied #events

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#copyright #create #draconian #holders #more

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#cast #decide #director #fifty #forty

What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#chose #create #duress #event #first

There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#day #doing #every #every day #heroic