#resent

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music. ↗

— Paula Cole

#curious #express #express yourself #freedom #going

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment. ↗

— Craig T. Nelson

#because #choose #compassion #give #give and take

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier. ↗

— Craig T. Nelson

#easier #forgiveness #helps #just #live

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#idea #knows #may #only #represent

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time. ↗

— George William Norris

#beginning #believe #done #had #i

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington. ↗

— Barack Obama

#represent #washington #you

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— Babatunde Olatunji

#gift #history #mystery #present #today

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#i #ideas #insights #inventory #more

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #bought #brazilians #came #families