#pa

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#blair #during #face #faced #had

I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#again #ago #beautiful #biggest #ever

In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#bruce #i #in my opinion #influence #know

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!' ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#driven #get #go #i #me

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman. ↗

— Thomas Day

#british #compare #education #i #nobleman

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#complex #cover #frank #i #i think

When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that? ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#blank #blank paper #cd #doing #every

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#closed #company #economic #environmental #last

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#better #business #california #coast #congress

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#big #big picture #compassion #connect #different