#nu

There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views. ↗

— David Cross

#feel #i #most #number #passed

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#easy #just #melodies #objectives #record

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#including #management #numerical #objectives #quotas

There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it. ↗

— Ice Cube

#central #chance #goes #just #like

Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#areas #both #democrats #done #get

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#nuclear-bomb #science #wwii #death

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. ↗

— Henry Villard

#acted #career #danger #field #general

I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#duty #elected #fulfilled #i #january

I'm one who demands a lot from people. I'm not afraid to look at alternative ways in city government. That's what I've done in my two years and will continue to do in the next four. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#alternative #city #city government #continue #demands