#out

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#been #chicago #citadel #city #conservatives

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. ↗

— Al Franken

#biases #bigger #conservative #cover #doing

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks. ↗

— Al Franken

#capital #enough #everybody #first #foot

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#back door #booked #bumped #crying #door

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#falling #like #losing #lot #love

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world. ↗

— Michael Franti

#enough #first #i #make #out

Human improvement is from within outward. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#improvement #outward #within

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not. ↗

— David Frum

#ago #broad #channels #choice #could

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. ↗

— David Frum

#candidate #china #democracies #democratic #economy

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time. ↗

— John Frusciante

#balance #fear #get #important #me