#resent

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that. ↗

— Adele

#i #like #look #magazines #majority

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility. ↗

— Patti Smith

#artist #aspect #being #figure #good

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. ↗

— Patti Smith

#because #came #chords #enough #i

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#feel #i #like #media #national

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#earth #endlessly #every #exists #face

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#best #best interests #conduct #due #i

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me. ↗

— James Spader

#consumption #eager #films #i #life

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#ask #gets #letters #manuscripts #might

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#different #past #present #study #want