#us

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#categories #clearly #closed #cultural #culture

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#conscious #creative #creative act #mystery #other

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#energy #focus #intimidation #less #lifestyle

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#anyway #artist #attempted #balancing #believe

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#because #dance #dead #glory #i

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#facilities #her #just #learned #less

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#feeling #going #i #i love #just

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#children #helped #i #kids #leukemia

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#big #everybody #insignificant #leads #life

If it's music, I love it. ↗