#lt

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#anything #brooklyn #change #easiest #experience

What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed. ↗

— Claire Vaye Watkins

#culture #art

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#being #believe #come #country #foreign

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#christ #cover #jesus #jesus christ #me

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#asian #bad #countries #european #good

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#general #major #takes #train

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#causes #civilization #concern #forces #healthy

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria. ↗

— David Dimbleby

#memorial #victoria

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are. ↗

— David Dinkins

#be happy #communications #country #culture #finance

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#been #better #bit #case #early