#via

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#awful #basketball #beautiful #became #country

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#kill #killed #reasons #trivial #willingness

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#as far as #because #claim #concerned #does

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. ↗

— May Sarton

#feel #give #himself #love #make

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar. ↗

— George Saunders

#character #drama #feel #foster #half

Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#behind #biggest #brought #changes #desktop

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#avenue #become #being #consolidated #day

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on. ↗

— John Sebastian

#come #end #first #first of all #i

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done. ↗

— David Selby

#commercially #done #enables #endowment #important

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#chemical #gear #here #i #i can