#rat

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#exciting #frankly #i #liberating #pretend

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#be-bop #deliberate #developed #way

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#conservative #crime #fact #generation #genre

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#after #again #almost #arrives #because

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#any #being #calories #corporations #deductible

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #books #literature #passion #teaching

Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax. ↗

— Richard Neal

#alternative #american #american people #announce #best

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#candidate #candidates #could #current #dares

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#attitudes #corporation #distrust #ed #evidence