#rest

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that. ↗

— Mos Def

#eight #get #guy #guys #i

Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. ↗

— Len Deighton

#asked #asking #book #come #first

I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#around #did #i #interested #know

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#artists #because #been #born #escape

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#audience member #bringing #create #interested #into

The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security. ↗

— Dennis C. Blair

#benefit #bottom #bottom line #damage #done

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#hardest #homesick #novel #restaurant #write

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. ↗

— John Berger

#before #century #imposed #natural #other

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#businesses #crisis #declines #destroyed #economic

The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#do the right thing #economy #federal #heart #interest