#la

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road. ↗

— Peggy Lee

#disease #get #going #i #life

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley. ↗

— Spike Lee

#beginning #black #bob #bob marley #college

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. ↗

— Spike Lee

#african american #alone #american #american culture #black

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#anything #art #beautiful #does #dramatic

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#azkaban #harry-potter #justice #murder #revenge

Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not. ↗

— John Leeson

#hair #i #i think #know #longer

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#college #dealing #go #good #intention

After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm. ↗

— Ernest Lehman

#black #black sheep #just #sheep #warm

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. ↗

— Iain Banks

#safety #story #technology #trope #age

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#demands #effect #god #ideas #inasmuch