#mac

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#believed #bringing #classes #government #growth

We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#love #death

Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#breaks #communities #control #doctors #hell

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#any #back #better #come #deliver

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.' ↗

— Samantha Barks

#girl #i #karaoke #les #machine

. . . and what are you exactly, my friend? Their subordinate? Their employee? Or, I would suggest, their equal? That's what young Karl would certainly have said, and probably still does. Unless he's no longer alive.' Dodger gave Solomon and strange look and Solomon hastened to clarify. "'Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.' (205) ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#equality #rage-against-the-machine #revolution #equality

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#gives #judgment #more #negative #praise

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#been #done #feel #full #having

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#friction #kills #machinery #people #revolution

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#human #human brain #incredible #machine