Ruben Blades Quotes

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

Ruben Blades

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YouTelevisionEverythingRadio

When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

Jill Sobule

PeopleSongThinkDoingYouArtist

The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.

Jerry Yang

ChangeInternetDrivingMediaWill

I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.

Jenny Lawson

LifeMyselfPeopleSurpriseLonely

'Star Trek' seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another.

John Cho

NatureKnowledgePeaceControlOut

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

John Malkovich

WorkTodayPeopleYouGoSay

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Matthew Simpson

LifeThingsAgainstUsPractical

There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played.

Smokey Robinson

DetroitAroundFewPlayedVery

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Robinson Jeffers

ImaginationMindSolitudeTraitor

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

Michael Mandelbaum

PowerWorldAmericanDislikePlanet

President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.

Jon Meacham

LosingNameNowPresidentRepublican

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

Dolly Parton

WritingGuitarSeriousOldYears

I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.

Chelsea Clinton

LiveSupportCityCountryWhere

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