#hal

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#be different #born #different #later #man

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there. ↗

— Alan Vega

#around #bands #enough #fulfill #get

It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#clear #country #created #entitlement #facing

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#celebrity #entertainment #fundamental #gossip #greed

I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it. ↗

— Martin Gore

#decide #enjoy #focal #focal point #half

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#dream #half-hour #show #tv #tv show

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#always #better #calmness #challenges #ease

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. ↗

— Jay Gould

#half #hire #i #i can #kill

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #challenged #changes #darwinian #explained

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#challenge #field #high #notoriously #ongoing