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I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#electric #good #great #him #how

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side. ↗

— Christo

#because #chances #decision #deliberately #difficult

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff. ↗

— Stockard Channing

#around #biological #certain #fat #go

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. ↗

— James Chanos

#asset #bubble #building #buy #cash

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating. ↗

— Claudia Christian

#doing #fascinating #interesting #job #life

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#a-song-of-ice-and-fire #arya #feast #funny #george-r-r-martin

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#experience #find #i #intimately #married

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#christian #difficult #found #ideal #left

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#become #birds #body #connection #daily

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? ↗

— Jesus Christ

#his #loss #man #profit #shall