#or

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#falseness #harm #honesty #hurt #i

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time. ↗

— Kanye West

#crying #executives #front #frustrating #get

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#been #circles #david #declined #domestic

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones. ↗

— Kanye West

#also #boring #even #first #i

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. ↗

— Mae West

#audience #big #black #gleam #glitter

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important. ↗

— Mae West

#anymore #censorship #dignity #doing #films

There was something else amusing about the house: the irony that the most important battle of the American Revolution--the shoot-out at the Old North Bridge--had taken place just outside the residence of the pacifist Ralph Waldo Emerson. True, Emerson was born after the battle in 1803, but his grandfather had been living in the house at the time of the Revolution, and the juxtaposition of such pacifism against such violence struck Paul as a symbol of an eternal truth about American history: Nixon, that goofy Vietnam War mortician, was right: the silent majority ruled (not the rebellious, pacifist fringe); the majority killed for their property; and there was nothing really revolutionary about the minutemen , who won a war and took over the entire country to ultimately build fast-food restaurants and Disneyland while abolitionists, pacifists, hippies, and environmentalists were left to make well-intended flatulent noises--to write poems such as Ginsberg's "Howl"--in books for other defeated noisemakers. ↗

— Josh Barkan

#disneyland #fast-food #pacifism #ralph-waldo-emerson #shot-heard-around-the-world

You could fill an airlift to Africa with all the food generated by one dead Jew. ↗

— Jonathon Tropper

#shiva #food

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports. ↗

— Tom Welling

#extreme sports #i #invincible #maybe #some

History is a race between education and catastrophe. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#catastrophe #education #history #race