#om

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#cent #cravings #economy #global #global economy

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#comedians #customers #funny #great #had

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death. ↗

— Lars Ulrich

#bores #death #me #people #some

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming. ↗

— Michael Buble

#beatles #biggest #coming #dc #eddie

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#character #definitely #either #even #fact

Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerned, that it means happy and comfortable home living honestly earned. But there are other troubles ahead for her, and plenty of hard work. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#comfortable #concerned #does #earned #earning

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes. ↗

— Martin Buber

#comes #deep #him #law #man

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time. ↗

— Michael Buble

#called #comes #dre #earned #every

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. ↗

— James Buchan

#almost #call #century #commodity #existence

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. ↗

— James Buchan

#compound #devastated #disruption #foreign #foreign aid