#stan

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' ↗

— David Byrne

#call #civic #distance #doing #engagement

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested - I'll kind of throw myself into some area that I don't completely know or understand, that I'm not adept at, so I'm forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There's a good feeling that comes from that. ↗

— David Byrne

#afloat #area #comes #completely #feeling

Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about. ↗

— Herman Cain

#economic #federal #federal reserve #good #had

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper. ↗

— Roger Federer

#blame #enjoyed #goalkeeper #had #i

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. ↗

— Michael Caine

#held #me #ovation #quite #regard

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#assistance #controlled #curtailed #fall #foreign

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience. ↗

— John Cale

#because #only #onstage #reason #sight

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#antagonism #economic #economic freedom #freedom #gold

There are no instant solutions. ↗

— James Callaghan

#solutions

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#circumstances #each #find #his #must