#roc

This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

#agreeing #among #clearly #differ #games

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. ↗

— Addison Mizner

#does #loves #misery #misery loves company #reciprocate

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision. ↗

— John Money

#best way #desperation #drastic #for the people #living

We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue. ↗

— Evo Morales

#bolivia #bringing #change #continue #process

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across. ↗

— Van Morrison

#get #i #interested #not interested #rock

I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#after #concerts #enough #front #get

I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#writing-philosophy #writing-process #art

I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#broken #dad #family #food #food stamps

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#basically #doing #how #i #kind

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#get #interesting #proceed #questions #result