#nsa

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style. ↗

— Jelly Roll Morton

#chicago #city #credit #dollars #even

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#age #children #compensated #confirms #control

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.' ↗

— Mira Nair

#anything #arkansas #cut #film #film-maker

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. ↗

— Larry Niven

#building #built #dozen #everyone #insane

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#details #drive #else #i #important

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly. ↗

— Max Nordau

#despised #does #everyone #hold #i

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity. ↗

— Novalis

#indispensable #links #mediator #more #nothing

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#feel #i #i feel #insane #right

Religion is induced insanity. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#insanity #religion

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#conviction #indescribable #love #love is #perhaps