#mos

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#army #before #first #first of all #i

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#against #cause #discrimination #east #educational

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? ↗

— Shimon Peres

#build #choice #cost #future #important

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #basically #become #been #big

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. ↗

— Richard Perle

#british #europe #independence #must #our

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conducting #different #different perspectives #doing #each

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#almost #another #around #back #crashing

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#art #because #business #costs #film

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#happens #materials #most #moves #music

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#belongs #blues #century #fugue #like