#ions

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#another #asked #began #british #chairman

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#because #brothers #competitive #complex #developed

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#infancy #institutions #later #shape #societies

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#complex #emotions #europeans #experiencing #handle

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#considerations #corporation #especially #music #nothing

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#comet #cooper #elements #get #i

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#compilation #coverage #creativity #critical #during

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some. ↗

— Kel Mitchell

#agent #auditions #got #i #like

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#even #good #sacrificing #sad #see

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#ago #comet #computations #did #first