#posing

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#between #come #divide #fairness #him

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? ↗

— Rebecca West

#composing #each #i #i wonder #just

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#always #been #censorship #forefront #libraries

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan. ↗

— Alex North

#composing #experience #film #kazan

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#absolutely nothing #american #american consumer #big #consumer

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bach #been #born #composing #due

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. ↗

— Steve Swallow

#before #compose #composing #i #i see

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#empty #germany #good #huge #i

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#deserving #draft #employing #exposing #expression

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#equal #footing #must #negatively #participate