#mar

With Los Angeles, it's kind of a love-hate thing. Sometimes I think it's marvelous, and sometimes I think it's a dump. It's so fake and I can't deal with how fake it is. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#deal #dump #fake #how #i

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#big #chunk #corporation #give #goal

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú

I was a smart kid, but I hated school. ↗

— Eminem

#i #kid #school #smart

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#nature #reinvent #smarter #than #wheels

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. ↗

— Eminem

#always #dream #i #i always #into

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. ↗

— Eminem

#details #divorce #family #filing #had

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#get #get married #gourmet #i #magazine

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#experience #had #i #i am #lot

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#give #had #however #i #introductory