Fundamentally, I’ve always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone’s paying their fair share but we don’t have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can’t bear it the most. Pramila Jayapal Read Quote
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. Andre Previn Read Quote
Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to – more in touch with something deep and dark within myself. Edward Hirsch Read Quote
Once you’ve lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It’s a mentality, a double standard of existence. John le Carre Read Quote
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American. Pete Seeger Read Quote
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom. Buddha Read Quote
There’s a huge interest in the Chinese market, and Hollywood has a huge interest in the Chinese market with films like ‘Transformers’ making more money over there than here. Daniel Wu Read Quote
Honestly, I never thought we’d get a nomination for a Grammy, period. To be honest, we felt that if we were ever going to get one, we thought we had ‘City of Evil’ and ‘Nightmare’ and ‘Hail to the King,’ and those were all big records, and they never even sniffed at us. M. Shadows Read Quote
