Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Sidney Hook
Recitation: by Male by Female
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
John Lee Hooker
PeopleBackBluesNowTryMore
A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.
Sufjan Stevens
WorkMadnessCallHerWorkingHis
There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.
Stewart Udall
TodayMistakePersonGrand Canyon
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
Rodney Dangerfield
DayWifeMeEyeTryingSaid
The IRGC's tentacles are well hidden in the Iranian economy, making the risk of becoming entangled with the organization an impossible-to-quantify possibility.
Mike Pompeo
OrganizationRiskHiddenEconomy
One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.
Michael Moss
HomeMovingEconomicsKeyEatGet
It's hard to start from the bottom.
Lou Duva
StartHardBottom
Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.
Josh Radnor
MyselfDayReachProblemFindKind
From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.
Diana Gabaldon
MeCowEarlyAppleLateDone
If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
Chet Atkins
YouHalfwaySomethingChancesLike
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
VictorySelfHimOverEnemiesCount
You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.
Arnold Palmer
BuildingGolfYouSummerGoPalm
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