#were

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people. ↗

— Joey Ramone

#elvis #elvis presley #emotions #john #john lennon

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

#american #american films #characters #depth #directors

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#certain #documents #excess #far #insert

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#bar #cedar #difficult #found #i

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. ↗

— Robert Reich

#american #american politics #any #bush #bush administration

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#enemy #free #more #officer #pupil

I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time. ↗

— Michel Patini

#best #career #finishing #football #good

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told. ↗

— Marc Davis

#been #before #done #had #never

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits. ↗

— Sean Paul

#been #bona #bona fide #by the time #fide

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#ann #anybody #awareness #back #came