#ring

I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly. ↗

— Mos Def

#began #being #declaring #def #family

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#back #been #before #changed #done

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#appeared #our #spring #thankfulness #want

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#barbarous #christian #civilized #considering #country

Each album has its own cycle. We wanted to capture all those feelings and moments for this touring cycle. ↗

— Brad Delson

#capture #cycle #each #feelings #moments

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#affliction #anger #bring #change #could

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. ↗

— Democritus

#himself #little #makes #man #poor

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings. ↗

— Jack Dempsey

#before #champion #gong #just #know

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#angeles #become #celebrity #famous #found

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater. ↗

— Judi Dench

#censoring #first #i #into #lord