#ere

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#i #make #me #music #one time

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#any #deeply #did #european #felt

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#cheerfulness #discontent #failure #i #indeed

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#body #considered #culture #define #forgotten

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting

Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#asked #because #certainly #disliked #folks

Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#basically #been #bonds #debt #domestic

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that. ↗

— Nerlens Noel

#college life #done #everything #forward #freedom

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day. ↗

— Kristi Noem

#coast #day #degree #east #east coast

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington. ↗

— Kristi Noem

#came #change #come #here #washington