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If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#change #coming #democratic #elected #fair

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically. ↗

— Jimmy Chamberlin

#being #bit #daunting #enjoying #first

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#american lives #conflict #costs #going #know

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american #calculate #car #count #distance

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#action films #american #american family #audience #audiences

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american audiences #american films #asian #audiences #films

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#i #i can #kind #like #make

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american audience #audience #big #box #box office

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#back #both #different #different sets #formal