#former

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence

An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #direction #electric #external #field

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#former #governors #look #presidents #senators

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#capable #compassion #former #great #his

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#acting #always #artist #audience #being

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy? ↗

— Victor Cruz

#guy #i #life #like #looking

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#anyway #areas #collar #counties #fight

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist. ↗

— James Daly

#artists #conversations #down #got #greatest

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#feedback #get #going #performers #vacuum

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around. ↗

— Mac Davis

#around #close #elvis #elvis presley #even