#ty

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. ↗

— Nicole Brossard

#poetry #beauty

I always like to think I'm having a dinner party, and I'm the host, and the audience are my guests. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#audience #dinner #dinner party #guests #having

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. ↗

— Charles Eames

#doing #magic #process #quality #resides

I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#been #completely #disintegrated #feel #glad

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else. ↗

— Alfonso Ribeiro

#else #everyone #fortunate #had #i

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#allowing #become #believing #celebrity #danger

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#because #claimed #germany #i #identity

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#about #around #blow #crippling #deformity

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#arbitrary #bestowed #capital #commodities #dependent

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods. ↗

— David Ricardo

#both #commodity #comparative #comparing #consideration