#ten

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#cool #early #i #including #jazz

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#book #cracks #end #go #grove

Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#airlines #anywhere #attention #days #get

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#eat #effort #every #except #federal

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#dumb #dumb people #frustrated #i #i think

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#any #attention #bad #closed #deal

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#could #i #into #like #meet

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#aware #being #car #changed #daughter

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#authority #four #freedom #human #human rights

The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#balance #between #consistent #copyright #courts