#rim

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#anyone #believe #expresses #jazz #me

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#anxiety #causes #discourse #going #great

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#avoid #cannot #crime #excuse #i

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#crimes #cry #freedom #important #justice

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#affordable housing #believe #better #bring #build

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#being #big #day #decision-making #excuses

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#any #city #crime #crime rate #high

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#classes #encountered #i #instruction #john

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#discrimination #insults #jews #luther #martin

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today. ↗

— David Blunkett

#i #minister #prime #prime minister #regret