#icu

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#difficult #give #i #just #never

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#difficult #human #human beings #intersect #just

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#guest #guest star #particularly #shows #star

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#about #american #american idol #care #contracts

It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#easier #i #i love #i love you #love

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#consumption #gentleman #goods #leisure #means

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#age #around #been #careful #chance

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#audience #composer #concerts #could #creative

This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me. ↗

— David Dinkins

#candidates #me #motivates #particular #these