#ect

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#acceptable #changing #communities #concerning #conditions

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. ↗

— Paul Simon

#kind #looking #magic #music #often

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth. ↗

— Carly Simon

#bit #connection #deeper #dig #emotional

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside. ↗

— Carly Simon

#any #cause #desire #get #inside

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic. ↗

— Carly Simon

#eclectic #everyone #get #i #i tried

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly. ↗

— Dave Sim

#always #any #around #circle #directly

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#arrived #between #black #calm #could

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#discretion #intimate #justice #life #nothing

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#constantly #culture #energies #entirety #grow

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cannot #exhausted #genuine #indifferent #individuality