#loc

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#away #beautiful #block #chipping #elimination

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system. ↗

— John Hume

#grammar #grammar school #i #independent #local

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. ↗

— James Inhofe

#american #block #blood #cell #concerned

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#categories #clearly #closed #cultural #culture

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#american music #american television #been #clothes #culture

Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#building #devote #end #five #hope

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#cotton #head #i #like #minds

I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#advice #am #any #area #blending

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#find #get #go #hidden #hiding

I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.' ↗

— Joan Jett

#every #every night #everything #eyes #got