#stood

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.


Joseph Parry


#change #friendships #stood #surely #test

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.


Thomas Peterffy


#baseball #basketball #boring #could #day

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.


Criss Jami


#art #artist #author #autobiography #character

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.


Emeli Sande


#believed #doing #doors #down #ended

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.


Erwin Schrodinger


#atomic #between #careful #entities #experiment

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.


Criss Jami


#being-yourself #celebrities #emotional #facade #fame

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.


Galt Niederhoffer


#books #cruel #discussing #dissecting #driving

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.


Ben Affleck


#attempt #enough #failed #first #first thing

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.


Victoria de los Angeles


#each #easy #geoffrey #him #i

I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.


Carlton Fisk


#carried #fair #feet #foul #go