#so

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. ↗

— Julian Bond

#gratification #immediate #justice #many #need

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences. ↗

— Brian Eno

#differences #distances #drag #i #idea

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ↗

— Brian Eno

#had #history #intrusions #music #occasional

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it. ↗

— Enya

#evolve #i #i do #into #melody

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person. ↗

— Enya

#company #events #feel #i #intact

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me. ↗

— Enya

#i #me #music #never #personal

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#does #dropping #glass #into #like

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people. ↗

— Islom Karimov

#be happy #could #facilitate #fate #favor

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings. ↗

— Julian Bond

#announcing #anyone #board #day #end

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action. ↗

— Julian Bond

#amendment #any #carries #first #first amendment