#ham

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. ↗

— Barack Obama

#about #absolute #absolute power #chambers #either

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#anything #bit #california #city #demolished

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#babies #because #cause #did #fault

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music. ↗

— Amos Oz

#allegory #chamber #i #immediate #israelis

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#championships #games #how #many #matter

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit. ↗

— Candace Parker

#championship #credit #dad #dunk #first

You're measured by championships no matter what. ↗

— Candace Parker

#matter #measured #you

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market. ↗

— Evan Parker

#birmingham #buy #called #everybody #i

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ↗

— Plato

#conquer #conquered #first #greatest #most

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes! ↗

— Alan Parsons

#any #before #black #boxes #chambers