#lent

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. ↗

— Julius Erving

#career #could #envy #family #family life

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. ↗

— George Etherege

#cannot #death #diseased #endure #grows

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#after #art #became #because #i

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#experience #get #got #hammered #hell

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#founder #lives #most #rock #strike

There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#express #i #incredibly #lot #rage

If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#any #capitol #god #i #mom

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#crisis #disconnect #doing #existential #feel

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#equivalent #example #for example #man #object

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#described #dig #equivalent #favorite #i