#ra

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

#anywhere #beneficiaries #big #constituencies #farmers

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped. ↗

— David Frum

#elite #leading #trapped

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally. ↗

— David Frum

#factions #generally #party #republican #republican party

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. ↗

— John Frusciante

#being #better #clearer #doing #feel

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet. ↗

— John Frusciante

#available #avoiding #because #been #doing

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence. ↗

— John Frusciante

#because #been #being #emotion #energies

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#eternity #every #moment #tragedy

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#attention #being #drawback #full #give

The preparation I had in college was the most valuable. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#had #i #most #preparation #valuable

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#itches #other #scratch #take #team