#son

I discourage a cult of personality. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#discourage #i #personality

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#because #disappointing #edited #essence #little

I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew the lyrics. It just blew me away. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

#backstage #blew #first #god #gonna

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#change #grow #i #might #older

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em. ↗

— Big Bill Broonzy

#folk songs #guess #heard #horse #i

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society. ↗

— Bryan Brown

#america #contribute #contributing #could #i

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#thomas-jefferson #equality

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way. ↗

— Jayson Williams

#i #prison #way

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man. ↗

— Chris Brown

#becoming #i #losing #man #me

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that. ↗

— Chris Brown

#fans #girl #i #least #level