#tract

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#appear #create #hide #how #make

If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#country #current #doing #interest #our

Evil is whatever distracts. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#evil #whatever

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#abstract #avant-garde #expressionism #harvard #i

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

#beauty #blame #critic #effect #him

I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#am #attracted #been #captivated #easily

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#attractive #community #decisions #especially #faith

I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#be a man #deserved #going #grown #had

We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy. ↗

— Boris Kodjoe

#because #being #deal #end #energy

I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#any #comes #contract #day #going