#mate

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#enough #everyone #issue #love #music

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#alone #because #concern #express #expressed

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#become #century #detriment #developed #fact

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom. ↗

— George Duke

#freedom #i #my own #own #pay

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#capable #despair #feeling #felt #man

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#above #also #analysis #based #collect

See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. ↗

— Mel Torme

#band #did #garland #her #i

Manners are love in a cool climate. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#cool #love #manners

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#always #because #exercise #i #never