#some

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#before #better #functioning #getting #hope

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#continuing #music #old #own #proving

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#charge #deprive #future #globally #going

My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it. ↗

— Aileen Wuornos

#appreciate #aware #been #cases #clean

I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#books #carry #case #cassettes #down

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#door #equivalent #even #intellectual #living

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#bad #because #hurt #i #i wish

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#american dream #cheap #consumer #coupled #courtesy

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#comforting #confronting #conservatives #fairy #fairy tales

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cultural #dna #happen #made #societies