#them

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#embrace #failures #figure #gonna #great

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#around #celebrity #could #either #find

There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like - they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it's a lot of fun, man. It's like, this is how I started, and it's still fun for me. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#come #dress #fun #good #good time

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#beings #capable #complete #deepest #fulfill

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man. ↗

— Ray Charles

#blues #country #country music #different #different things

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English. ↗

— America Ferrera

#both #english #me #parents #siblings

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#aught #bliss #burial #closely #else

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#bad #bad guys #bang #bin #captured

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology. ↗

— Stockard Channing

#connect #good #i #i think #keep