#time

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bush tax cuts #cuts #democratic #democrats #half

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#disney #exist #get #kind #know

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#away #drift #enough #far #gradually

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#pastime #priesthood

I was arrested three times and tortured once. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#i #once #three #times #tortured

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#read #reasons #time #try #wrong

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #contemplation #developed #developing #ended

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. ↗

— Steve Vai

#gotta #hold #know #play #should

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#case #done #even #everything #had