#pose

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achieving #action #desire #goal #possibility

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all? ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ago #asked #co-operative #composers #course

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#conceal #could #escape #exposes #hip-hop

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards. ↗

— Rihanna

#i #kill #me #mother #nude

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#any #around #away #because #becomes

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. ↗

— Hugh Trevor-Roper

#function #genius #give #mediocrity #new

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#beliefs #cannot #cause #does #hold

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#feel #free #happy #i #i feel

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#attack #because #impose #kill #many

There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#companies #competitive #country #even #expose