#versa

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#adversarial #artist #attack #been #before

I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#feel #i #i feel #listening #perhaps

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#almighty god #among #efficacious #give #god

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#awareness #called #conceiving #concept #universal

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#bathroom #been #children #come #conversation

This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#american people #anniversary #decades #greatest #help

Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#disney #entertainment #florida #opportunities #studios

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time. ↗

— Ginger Rogers

#dance #dancing #joy #men #part

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#asked #because #bedside #could #dad