#ness

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#men #money #reason #sell #stupidity

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#fragmented #general #i #i think #me

The music business doesn't interest me anymore. ↗

— Lou Reed

#business #interest #me #music #music business

..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#experience

I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can. ↗

— Tara Reid

#awesome #cure #find #friends #hiv

It's time for the IRA to go out of business. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#go #ira #out #time

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#am #birds #close #come #darkness

On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. The square is empty; only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#covering #empty #farther #go #into

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness. ↗

— David Remnick

#achievements #bitterness #everything #gorbachev #him

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ↗

— Jules Renard

#get #habit #laziness #more #nothing