#tis

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career. ↗

— Andrea Thompson

#art #artist #artistic #black #black and white

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services. ↗

— Sean Parker

#contracts #get #happening #lot #paid

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#convention #did #few #folk #gigs

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#character #desirable #diversity #great #intellectual

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#conception #contemporary #contemporary society #few #getting

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#anything #because #him #his #i

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#certainly #display #dull #eyes #may

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it. ↗

— Sean Paul

#artist #because #music #person #sing

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#age #begin #being #factor #feelings