#elf

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#comes #coverage #dying #event #focus

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#makes #others #people #self-interest #some

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#contains #love #more #self-love #than

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself. ↗

— Chris Rock

#funny #know #only #others #something

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls. ↗

— Kid Rock

#capable #good #good people #got #hearts

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#add #beneficial #constructive #hopefully #lead

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#american #believed #big #country #crash

Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#art #artist #been #best #call

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. ↗

— Nile Rodgers

#critic #hardest #i #i think #judging

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#art #contemplation #divines #herself #into