#ill

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left. ↗

— Mort Kondracke

#academic #bankruptcy #churchill #employed #intellectual

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#challenging #clean #me #melody #now

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#long #music #people #play #play music

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#another #approach #comes #everybody #jump

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#argue #certain #certain things #completely #compulsively

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#competitions #designs #feature #green #increasingly

When trying to find the words to tell her how much I loved her, I stumbled across the ingredients for grilled cheese sandwiches. That’s when I realized she was the melted cheese to my toast. And the guy she’s currently seeing, the guy she left me for, well, I guess he is the tomato soup.
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— Jarod Kintz

#food #grilled-cheese-sandwich #ingredients #love #sadness

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells. ↗

— B. B. King

#could #every #every night #favorite #i

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done. ↗

— B. B. King

#haven #i #make #many #sounds

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#exams #far #much #obama #places