#tries

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes. ↗

— Tori Amos

#commercial #company #control #expensive #hand

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#appreciate #artist #happy #i #make

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#easy #employees #end #global #industries

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#britain #century #countries #every #france

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#causes #cleanse #despair #eliminate #failed

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#becomes #country #paris #provincial #ridiculous

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#controlling #countries #developed #developed countries #economies

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#car #continue #control #countries #destruction

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. ↗

— Daisy Bates

#does #her #his #ideal #makes

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay. ↗

— Sandy Berger

#been #convey #countries #cross #deliberate