#met

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#congress #country #developed #different #divide

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak. ↗

— George Best

#comes #destructive #gift #great #great gift

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#consumption #entire #form #gigantic #included

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#cannot #childhood #even #infancy #like

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to. ↗

— Joe Biden

#free #freedom #idea #look #notion

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for. ↗

— Michael Biehn

#film #good #good film #good people #i

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#having #indicates #ingenious #instrument #kind

My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#art #being #broke #cartoon #cartoonist

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#appealing #attractive #being #foot #makes

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#friend #little #me #something #succeeds