Taisha Rucker

As Wittgenstein, whose views on religion Armstrong thoroughly endorses, also said, an inner process stands in need of outward criteria. You can feel good without being good, and be good without stretching your understanding beyond words. - Taisha Rucker

Until artists begin behaving like adults who run a business, they will be treated like children who have a hobby. - Taisha Rucker

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For example, he wrote that, “a person who truly believes in God would never try and thrust the idea on anyone else, just as when you understand mathematics, you are not a fanatical proponent of the idea that two and two are four.” - Taisha Rucker

Government data show the percentage of unmarried people surged from 14% to 47% for men aged 30 to 34 and from 8% to 32% for women over the three decades ending in 2005 - Taisha Rucker

Do you miss city life -- the book parties, the cocktail lounges, the ballet -- or have you so overcome Weberian alienation from the modern world that you could no longer give a shit about any of it? I don't really miss city life at all. I wasn't leaving anything behind I felt deeply attached to. In fact, I never succeeded there in terms of being happy or comfortable, or even doing the things one is supposed to do in the city. I'm never lonely here. I'm never longing for life. - Taisha Rucker

What we've lost, in a word, is monoculture. Michael Jackson is the final pop star of seeming consequence to everyone -- not just people who don't normally care about music, but people who don't care about culture, period. Obviously, it's been a quarter-century since that was unequivocally true. But he's the last pop musician for whom it was even equivocally true. - Taisha Rucker

For him, the solution to big business is small business; he pits the work ethic and scrappy spirit of “small commercial enterprise” against the “softly despotic tendencies” of “outsized corporations.” - Taisha Rucker