#vera

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#america #attention #attention span #average #length

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#book #contract #first #forth #get

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero. ↗

— Bill Gates

#american #average #billion #bring #carbon

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#america #business #case #damage #doing

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats. ↗

— Dick Gephardt

#average people #back #clinton #code #cut

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. ↗

— Philip Glass

#developing #me #music #overall #revelation

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#advertise #advertises #cannes #come #coverage

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#baseball #basketball #bottom #coverage #field

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#average #band #business #could #enrolled