#thing

I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#cent #clean #cleaner #dying #gold

Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#becomes #defeating #doing #end #in the end

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#art #artists #make #one thing #permissible

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else. ↗

— Nicholas Lea

#anything #else #i #just #want

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#get #kill #man #now #now and then

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#comes #difference #durable #electricity #expensive

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#called #economy #either #nothing #political

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#believe #essence #first #make #make believe

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#charges #same #should #side #thing

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#been #close #different #different thing #down