#p

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#could #down #i #lines #move

You express different energies at different times in your life. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#different times #energies #express #life #times

But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair ↗

— Relient K

#beauty

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#care #domestic #else #everybody #everybody else

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#decided #i #make #me #more

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#comedy #especially #going #hard #i

The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#doing #going #here #issue #moral

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

Hardship makes the world obscure. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#makes #obscure #world

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#humanism #marxism #poetry #rosa-luxemburg #beauty