#sec

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#comedian #every #fifteen #laugh #make

The piano is kind of my second instrument. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#kind #piano #second

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming. ↗

— Michael Buble

#beatles #biggest #coming #dc #eddie

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock the rest up in volatile, insecure and illiquid loans that at times they cannot redeem without public aid. ↗

— James Buchan

#banking #banks #call #cannot #each

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. ↗

— James Buchan

#cause #classes #collapsing #devil #effect

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#comes #except #freedom #generous #liberals

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#forget #lose #rule #second

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#covered #cut #generally #hoop #leather

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#attorney #hangman #judge #jury #laws

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#government #guided #second #should #sober