#sam

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#decisions #force #his #historian #less

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#authentic #been #belief #come #could

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#decade #default #disappointed #invested #likely

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#able #about #arrive #breakup #different

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#every #four #had #hadn #hit

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms. ↗

— Dick Morris

#beginning #biased #correspondents #coverage #embedded

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#become #century #could #few #flexibility

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ↗

— William Temple

#always #divinity #enthusiasm #i #like

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works. ↗

— Van Morrison

#change #musician #same #singer #stay

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. ↗

— Van Morrison

#early #i #learnt #never #recordings