#tis

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#because #dad #door #downside #famous

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#change #dissatisfied #every #every time #get

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#evil #fetch #filth #great #guilt

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#anti-semitism #disgusted #europeans #i #i am

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#europe #find #i #nearly #nurture

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#exists #form #his #language #only

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#concrete #gives #individuality #makes #them

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#employment #established #fact #health #improves

It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#buy #countenance #create #cultural #cultural diversity