#spent

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#average #compared #couple #day #each

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better. ↗

— Macklemore

#american way #better #expensive #kind #makes

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#any #i #later #literature #make

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now. ↗

— Karl Malone

#i #lot #me #now #other

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#doing #i #last #lot #part

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#avoid #avoided #entire #entire lives #hear

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#concert #day #down #easy #ever

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#bands #being #country #couple #doing

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#believe #days #dreaming #graves #had

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. ↗

— John McCarthy

#knowledge #marxism #misspent #sign #youth