#wi

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#element #exist #fact #get #i

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conventional wisdom #enemy #events #ideas #march

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ashes #be true #dust #endure #facts

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fool #prerogative #speak #truths #utter

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#amendment rights #book #comic #comic book #comics

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#allowing #comedy #folk #freedom #glorious

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#change #controlled #men #past #struggling

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#difficult #down #feel #more #next

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#characteristic #common #confront #else #essence

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #book #books #cannot #devil