#used

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#culture #even #feel #great #great power

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal. ↗

— Phil Harris

#answer #any #ask #blue #bob

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#around #campfire #got #i #interested

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#cut #development #feeling #foundations #ground

Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#external #force #form #kind #man

America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#enough #freedom #fruit #give #hope

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#because #deal #finding #great #great deal

While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#european #golden #kinds #look #make

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place. ↗

— Neil Kurshan

#another #children #good #good advice #imagining

I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#anything #book #completely #confused #even