#ore

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#each #forever #gone #good #good old days

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#am #before #died #father #him

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#becomes #get #help #how #i

I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change. ↗

— Jerry Ferrara

#active #addicted #anymore #around #basketball

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day. ↗

— Jerry Ferrara

#craving #day #even #feel #forbidden

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#against #beef #consider #economic #even

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#man #may #more #think #thinks

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#actually #back #be careful #careful #come