#selves

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#does #enjoy #jazz #jazz musicians #last

The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important. ↗

— Arthur Wimperis

#chance #dreadful #gives #important #little

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. ↗

— Michael Winslow

#art #artists #blessing #break #curse

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chicken #direction #down #easy #edited

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. ↗

— Cliff Fadiman

#great #great ones #kinds #ones #only

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. ↗

— George Edward Woodberry

#because #boss #corollary #first #flat

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#bring #classes #fact #great #individuals

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bear #degradation #hurtful #others #ourselves

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. ↗

— Simone Weil

#aiming #already #as far as #between #brought

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out. ↗

— Roberta Williams

#computer industry #industry #keeping #more #nobody