#real

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. ↗

— Ted Turner

#concentrated #control #few #few people #five

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life. ↗

— Tina Turner

#anybody #become #discover #foundation #go

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. ↗

— Scott Turow

#burden #carry #proof #prosecutor #really

It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#first #grade #like #make #mistakes

It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three other songs that were very different from one other, and they all kind of came together as a palette cleanser for the last record. And I'm really excited about it. ↗

— Justin Vernon

#bank #blood #came #different #excited

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment. ↗

— William Vickrey

#cannot #employment #full #genuine #inherent

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#before #being #binds #body #bondage

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#between #dad #direct #family #fell

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. ↗

— Tom Waits

#ago #because #bubble #connected #everyone

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#create #earlier #i #literary #new