#use

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts. ↗

— Franco Zeffirelli

#arts #believed #celebrate #hands #i

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.' ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#courtship #destruction #had #him #hussein

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#because #black #discriminated #experienced #grew

I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#i #sound #think #use #will

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally. ↗

— Barry Zito

#hadn #i #mechanics #professionally #signed

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#causes #external #find #i #i see

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#because #laid #order #out #road

But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#existentialism #human-dignity #meaning #nihilism #usefulness

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#community #go #i #member #out

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#angeles #bats #cool #eye #just