#elf

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#cream #i #ice #ice cream #longer

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#does #effort #everything #fan #field

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#differently #i #motivation #myself #only

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#eat #others #please #thyself

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#follows #i #long #myself #opera

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#carefully #cons #could #debated #draw

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. ↗

— Joan Didion

#having #price #question #recognizing #self-respect

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse