#use

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember. ↗

— Brett Favre

#believe #cause #eight #even #football

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#bruce #definitely #guitar #i #influence

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#because #best #best work #bland #down

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#extremely #handle #i #i can #me

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetite #because #disinterested #else #equally

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#anything #attracted #because #condition #examining

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#back #because #become #biological #bit

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#condemns #good #half #loudly #moderate

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house. ↗

— Jay-Z

#collection #extensive #filled #grew #had

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#benefit #choices #family #find #great