#ties

Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's. ↗

— John Hutton

#account #any #capita #counties #europe

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#groups #individuals #insanity #nations #parties

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#arts-and-humanities #creative-process #writing #art

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship -- around participation in public life. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#page- #design

'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#doing #entities #going #i #i can

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us. ↗

— Steven Adler

#bands #different #five #guns #guys

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#catastrophe #cities #destroyed #exile #exiled

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#along #avenues #clear #desire #encouraged

I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#i #i think #lot #opportunities #think

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#big #big cities #cities #fired #franco