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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.


Doug Coupland


#bands #big #big companies #built #companies

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.


Frances O'Grady


#even #few #galling #government #husbands

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.


Peter O'Toole


#carrying #greatest #heads #home #husbands

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!


Hortense Odlum


#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.


Jeremy Renner


#bands #business #cameras #difficult #expression

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.


Buddy Rich


#basie #black #count #course #drummers

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.


Nile Rodgers


#back #bands #boost #call #come

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.


Solomon Ibn Gabirol


#hoard #husbands #many #men #their

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.


Delmore Schwartz


#knives #like #lives #look #poets

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.


Alia Shawkat


#bands #been #friends #i #i love