#let

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#catch #death #energy #energy level #felt

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#course #heap #his #leader #lets

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing. ↗

— Austin Butler

#beginning #complete #constantly #cool #different

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money. ↗

— Robert Byrd

#american taxpayer #borrow #come #directly #form

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage. ↗

— Cass Canfield

#always #anonymous #any #author #center

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #his #journal #letter #like

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#completeness #experience #half #immediately #other

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. ↗

— John Corigliano

#become #completely #composer #great #i

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#america #army #been #big #chunk

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. ↗

— Francis Darwin

#discoveries #exceptions #extreme #go #him