#act

I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair. ↗

— Evan Thomas

#blair #comparison #did #disappear #down

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#elite #fraction #humanity #more #productive

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#having #leading #leading man #man #prettier

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel. ↗

— Mo Yan

#characters #convey #deep #his #novel

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#come #deeper #distance #even #exhilaration

All I ever wanted to do was act. ↗

— Goran Visnjic

#ever #i #wanted

Acting is my job. ↗

— Goran Visnjic

#job

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#alien #experiencing #fever #industrialists #inhabited

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#bass #bass player #chick #corea #friend

Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#interact #more #nothing #services #than