#tune

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football. ↗

— Trey Parker

#election #football #i #like #months

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#depression #during #fortune #good #good fortune

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. ↗

— Eden Phillpotts

#been #build #fortune #goal #had

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#benefited #build #development #directly #farmers

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's. ↗

— Rob Portman

#about #all americans #businesses #corporations #fortune

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#after #any #believe #campaigning #candidates

I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it. ↗

— Prince

#angry #anyone #else #get #give

I believe in America. America's made my fortune. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#believe #fortune #i #i believe #i believe in

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one. ↗

— Mick Ralphs

#basement #become #did #flat #happened

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#early #fortunes #grounds #hacker #had