#in

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#brain #eighty #everything #face #face value

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#fake #got #lives #lot #our

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#half #heard #hearts #hoard #ills

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#between #certain #certain things #form #idea

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#finger #ideology #more #music #pumpkins

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#nothing #problem #story #technology #wrong

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#beyond #black #carry #citizens #civil

People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#beautiful #beautiful thing #complex #hot #i

We've turned into a whining society. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#society #turned #whining

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i