#rant

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#assertive #began #both #british #canada

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect. ↗

— Evan Parker

#already #course #guarantee #notation #only

I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.' ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#actor #asked #because #bunch #came

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#all things #anything #basically #hardly #head

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility. ↗

— Rick Perry

#based #flourish #free #free men #government

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz. ↗

— Tom Peters

#become #boundaries #brand #brands #buzz

We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted. ↗

— Tom Petty

#been #done #granted #i #i think

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#decent #democracy #generous #healthy #honorable

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ↗

— Plato

#conquest #disposed #fear #foreign #leader

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so. ↗

— Plotinus

#anyone #external #god #ignorant #present