#sent

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat. ↗

— Grace Slick

#argument #beings #built #eat #hard

But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#block #economic #economy #fundamental #future

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#animal house #comedies #friends #house #hughes

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia. ↗

— Simon Reynolds

#morrissey #music #nostalgia #past #pop

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#angeles #as far as #band #been #columbia

The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#essentially #face #momentarily #music #provide

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#creative #essentially #genius #individual #possesses

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#optimistic #purgatory #represents #rocky #side

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#cornerstone #doctrine #endowed #founded #governed

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#equation #essential #god #idea #man