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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#basis #community #conspicuous #consumption #gaining

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#ago #blank #down #empowering #exist

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#caustic #man #woman

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#anything #cause #good #good cause #i

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years. ↗

— Alan Vega

#after #always #anyway #couple #down

John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived! ↗

— Alan Vega

#away #because #been #blows #coltrane

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#am #annoyed #because #coming #doing

My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#around #because #comfortable #environment #experience

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem. ↗

— John Walters

#country #helping #president #president bush #problem

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off. ↗

— Larry Wall

#goofing #i #just #off #paid