#mer

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay. ↗

— Jonathan Cain

#american music #culture #here #like #music

our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#beauty

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. ↗

— Dorothy Stang

#any #aspire #battle #better #better life

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. ↗

— John Carmack

#low-level #programmer #programming #soul

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. ↗

— Al Capone

#going #lines #rackets #run #stay

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#genre #i #i think #like #think

America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. ↗

— Claire Wolfe

#awkward #bastards #early #late #shoot

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling? ↗

— Richard Powers

#chunk #completely #go #going #immerse

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #democratic #ever

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#american #american people #bay #despicable #does