#total

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#am #contribution #highly #i #i am

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#i #reporters #retreated #some #totally

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#exclusive #lacks #specific #totality

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.' ↗

— Adele

#always #artists #away #because #being

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#decay #forces #liberated #satire #total

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#destruction #grow #insane #organizations #rhythm

The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#been #done #engine #film #going

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#art #certainly #godfather #great #great piece

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#better #change #changes #conversation #forgotten

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#arise #because #cannot #changes #community