#ect

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#benefits #corporate #cuts #democracy #direction

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#cat #cat stevens #collection #dad #everyone

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#borders #geographic #homes #our #particularly

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#fbi #gather #go #information #interviews

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#come #congress #discuss #evening #family

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

#according #actor #any #channel #character

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#anyway #appearances #around #book #books

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#anybody #anywhere #difficult #does #fits

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#just #like #perfect #such #thing

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#could #directly #emotions #english #express