#spent

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#far #i #like #make #many

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. ↗

— James Tobin

#columbia #columbia university #days #entered #i

This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#better place #country #crime #currently #enforcement

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils. ↗

— Junius

#between #choosing #evils #lives #spent

Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#alcoholic beverages #beverages #dollar #each #purchased

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#blur #comes #far #far away #gives

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#been #best #clergyman #earnest #effect

Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half, I tweeted 60,000 tweets, over 100,000 words. I spent a minimum eight hours a day on it, sometimes 24 hours. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#eight #fit #half #hours #i

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#different #different ways #fitting #fitting in #i

I spent much of my life hiding. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#i #life #much #my life #spent