#ra

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#grand #i #next #next year #palace

I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#children #generation #heard #i #i think

Kill the body and the head will die. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#biography #drugs #humor #dreams

The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#come #did #doing #economy #else

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#literature #reading #literature

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#chronic #citizen #crack #diligence #disease

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#civilization #contempt #degree #drowned #felt

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#health #health insurance #insurance #kids #left

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#federal #federal government #government #just #modification

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#among #ask #citizens #earning #fortunate