#mis

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. ↗

— Robert Plant

#american #american music #americana #blues #chicago

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? ↗

— Jacques Plante

#boo #goes #how #job #light

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#benefited #build #development #directly #farmers

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen. ↗

— William Pollard

#examining #focus #individuals #just #kitchen

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. ↗

— Karl Popper

#impossible #misunderstood #speak #such #way

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. ↗

— Karl Popper

#earth #hell #never #paradise #produced

Things are going to get better. Be optimistic. ↗

— Bob Dole

#get #going #optimistic #things

I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers. ↗

— Zac Posen

#best #fashion #i #i think #make

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. ↗

— Jon Postel

#class #computer #computer program #doing #front

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. ↗

— Colin Powell

#compromise #compromises #consensus #constitution #country