#om

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#freedom #independence #lasting #make #members

The great anxious focus on the minutiae of appetite—on calories and portion size and what's going into the body versus what's being expended, on shoes and hair and abs of steel—keeps the larger, more fearsome questions of desire blurred and out of focus. American women spend approximately $1 million every hour on cosmetics. This may or may not say something about female vanity, but it certainly says something about female energy, where it is and is not focused. Easier to worry about the body than the soul, easier to fit the self into the narrow slots of identity our culture offers to women than to create one...that allows for the expression of all passions, the satisfaction of all appetites. The great preoccupation with things like food and shopping and appearance, in turn, is less of a genuine focus on hunger—indulging it, understanding it, making decisions about it—than it is a monumental distraction from hunger. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#hunger #women #food

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#beings #children #decent #hope #human

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#kind #ovation #seldom #very

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#any #comes #contract #day #going

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#class #considered #get #i #never

We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#come #instructed #money #pay #price

Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#aesthetically #any #band #economically #enormously

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#become #could #depressing #factory #i

At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#berlin wall #break #confidence #could #down