#rod

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor. ↗

— William Cobbett

#create #give #labor #persons #produce

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices. ↗

— Billy West

#happen #i #love #reproduction #vocal

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#been #being #every #executive #executive producer

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prodigal #rebellion #reconciliation #repentance #restoration

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. ↗

— Juan Cole

#discussions #dominate #i #i think #nevertheless

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#cartoon #chance #every #exist #exists

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#country #country music #cowboy #cowboy hat #dressed

Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me. ↗

— Terry Zwigoff

#credit #david #david lynch #day #gave

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time. ↗

— Phil Collins

#get #going #honest #i #interests

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events