#tin

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#criticism #discipline #existing #get #must

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#billion #continues #cost #dependence #each

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#boring #everything #guy #like #me

I'm terrified of getting involved with someone who disappoints me or leaves me empty and alone. I'm terrified of rejection, so I set my expectations so high that they can never be met, and I dig around with a magnifying glass looking for flaws in very person I date. There's always a flaw to exploit, and I'll find it so I never have to get too close. ↗

— Rachel Machacek

#fear #relationships #dating

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#becomes #being #building #coaster #creating

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful. ↗

— David Bailey

#buddhist #change #continuous #i #like

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. ↗

— David Bailey

#first #got #i #rough #serious

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out. ↗

— David Bailey

#beaten #being #choice #eight #five

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#been #found #free #i #improvised

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#another #continuously #die #every #film