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Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#city #experience #giant #going #i

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it. ↗

— Albert Speer

#cases #detailed #dropped #feign #given

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#almost #anything #between #determination #distinction

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. ↗

— John H. Speke

#buffalo #dark #dark places #delighting #especially

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion. ↗

— John H. Speke

#centre #fact #in fact #line #motion

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#check #every #every night #habits #i

The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#basically #final #get #hand #i

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust? ↗

— Regina Spektor

#accomplish #been #distance #dust #else

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#call #get #might #phone #phone call

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#day #emotion #end #end of the day #everyone