#rob

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#background #because #bit #brain #content

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#bit #celebrities #guy #i #just

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#carpet #go #go away #hoped #illness

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#ceo #giving #i #know #line

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#business #conjunction #digital #divide #economic

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem. ↗

— Colin Firth

#between #drunken #plumbing #problem #singing

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid. ↗

— Mindy Cohn

#always #describe #her #i #i always

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#exceedingly #generating #high #high degree #improbability

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people. ↗

— Joan Collins

#people #problem #rich #rich people #universal

When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#back #energy #food #fun #get