#late

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#dominant #even #first #get #languages

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing. ↗

— Paul Desmond

#dave #get #later #oh #planes

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#both sides #hits #plate #sides

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. ↗

— Tony Blair

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. ↗

— Joan Didion

#am #best #best interests #counter #forget

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#california #came #credentials #dejected #dreams

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#first #five #got #helped #how

Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#boatload #days #did #equipment #first

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#better #easily #going #good #good script

I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated. ↗

— Drake

#i #mischievous