#real

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#colours #confirmed #discovered #i #likes

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assault #capitalism #children #comfortable #conviction

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#burns #choose #concern #debt #diet

I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues. ↗

— James Meade

#any #century #comparable #economic #economic policy

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#challenge #history #make #make up #may

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#first #happening #more #place #really

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#being #couple #even #i #i remember

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#am #fat #grown #i #know

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#american #american people #campaign #distract #divide

I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice because I feel like I've grown so much with my style and everything because I've been able to have fun with it. It's really fun for me. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#beautiful #beautiful clothes #because #been #clothes