#makes

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool? ↗

— Jay-Z

#cool #face #feel #first #get

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#cannot #cheat #companionship #dissipate #force

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#conception #fact #in fact #judgement #kind

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#done #how #idea #makes #point

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#business #business world #clear #conviction #far

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

#beauty #blame #critic #effect #him

I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point. ↗

— Monica Keena

#be prepared #cannon #disagree #good #good way

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age. ↗

— Monica Keena

#age #also #am #different #different world

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#attractive #community #decisions #especially #faith

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. ↗

— Henry Ford

#discoveries #find #great #greatest #his