“At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.” IfsMenWellsStillsReasonHateCausesKnownSkyEatingAreasDecidedCome UpPracticalsPrincipalWell KnownEmperorEarthquakesJerusalemOutlawMonotheismLeviticusShellfishJustinian Author:Gore Vidal
“Being large and muscular, you are not taken very seriously as an actor. When bigger roles come up and the actor needs to be muscular they tend to cast a regular sized actor and get him to hit the weight program as opposed to hiring an actor who's already muscular and developed in that area.” NeedsActorsRolesTakenAreasProgramWeightBiggerCastsCome UpHiring Author:James Preston Rogers
“I always try and stay one step ahead of people, not looking like I looked like last week, so I can be as anonymous as possible and part of it is just for me. It is fun to just come up with new and bizarre colors for each area of your body and things like that, but there are some parts of it that I just keep wanting to negate myself. I hate waking up in the morning and recognizing the woman in the bathroom mirror.” PeopleTryingI CanBodyLastsHateFunStepsMorningWeekColorAreasI HateWake UpMirrorsCome UpYour BodyWakingBizarreRecognizingBathroomWaking Up In The Morning Author:Ani DiFranco
“My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.” WayWellsPlayBornPlayerTaughtDadBandLateMusicianStandardsAreasJazzMy DadCome UpRadioActiveFantasticPianoTunesBostonTrumpets Author:Chick Corea
“If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of their fellow man or themselves having guns, then that is someone who does not think like a free person. He places a magical aura around whoever is in charge and only thinks they can wield power. This will come up again in other areas, such as letting government make economic decisions but fearing individual people making those decisions themselves.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenPersonsDoeGovernmentIndividualDecisionEconomicLetting GoAuthorityGunAreasOkayPoliceFellowsCome UpFellow ManAuras Author:Frank J. Fleming
“The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up.” WayAgeFightingBattleAreasCome UpMy WayDaily LifeAnxiousCommandmentsPlagueAvoided Author:Esther Smith
“What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.” ThinkingWayDoeEmotionWiseMeditationAreasCome UpMiserableAlternativesShitheadsCompartmentalizing Author:Dan Harris
“The European Union and the United States of America are the big important economic areas for us, which is why I always have come up strongly in favor of concluding a trade agreement with the United States of America.” ImportantStatesBigsAmericaUnitedUnited StatesEconomicAreasTradeUnionsCome UpFavorsAgreementUnited States Of AmericaEuropean UnionTrade AgreementsConcluding Author:Angela Merkel
“Buckminster Fuller was down in Pennsylvania, then he'd come up and go to his island in Maine. He wanted to remain a New Englander. He taught from '48 to '49 and '50 at Black Mountain College. That's where he met Kenneth Snelson. Fuller kind of stayed a Yankee right in the New England area. So it was pretty easy to get him to come on over, and we would have lectures at the Harvard Science Center.” KindWantedEasyBlackTaughtCollegeMetsMountainAreasEnglandCome UpIslandsYankeesLecturesHarvardEasy To GetNew EnglandPennsylvaniaMaineBuckminster FullerKenneth Author:Paul Laffoley