#pro

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#composition #example #expose #for example #i

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#consultation #country #different #hold #lead

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#book writing #diversion #great #poetry #prose

2012 was the year I saw Twitter as a negative. More people need to realise that not everything they read is true and that Internet trolls are a real problem. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#i #internet #more #more people #need

Although I'm not shy when I'm singing, I am whenever I hear applause. I don't know if you've noticed, but I giggle a lot on-stage. That's shyness. And the stage manager is always telling me to take a longer bow whenever I come off-stage. I still haven't learnt to do that properly. I see other artistes milking the applause, but I can't quite do it. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#always #am #applause #bow #come

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#debate #doing #federal #federal government #government

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases. ↗

— Lance Ito

#biases #camera #consideration #courtroom #effect

Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security. ↗

— Igor Ivanov

#automatic #believes #carries #council #does

I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#endemic #everybody #everywhere #i #i think