#my

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#action #america #care #challenges #congress

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' ↗

— Evan Bayh

#because #current #determined #enough #filibuster

I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#always #audience #connection #i #important

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#both #manners #more #myth #reality

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#i #like #look #mask #myself

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem. ↗

— Beck

#grammys #i #little #poem #thing

In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means. ↗

— Beck

#fun #i #in the past #like #little

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#how #i #knew #myself #quite

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

#between #day #developed #every #every day

If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#also #could #expensive #i #if i could