Robert Christgau I was never really a bohemian. I was a sloppy guy who liked cheap apartments and the arts, and who was very left-wing politically as the 60’s progressed, though it took me a little while. – Robert Christgau Apartments Quotes Arts Quotes Bohemian Quotes Cheap Quotes Guy Quotes Leftwing Quotes Politically Quotes Progressed Quotes Sloppy Quotes I don’t like most world music because you need to know what the words are to really understand it. There’s a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other is in fact part of the pleasure you take in them – rather than the differentiation in which Jerome Kern and George Gershwin indulged to great effect.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell We didn’t get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on. – Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Richard Rogers If you had a carbon tax, you’d have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport. – Richard Rogers
Shannon Purser When I was a little kid, I used to get in trouble a lot for lying. Being raised religious, I believed that lying was sinful, so I felt guilty. – Shannon Purser
Chrissy Metz The truth is, I don’t find my value in my body or my weight. It’s really more about who I am and what I can offer as a human being to the people in my life and the people in the world. – Chrissy Metz
Allen Weinstein We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. – Allen Weinstein
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