#actor

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator? ↗

— Tom Ford

#designer #fashion #fashion designer #governor #had

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#bare #going #had #i #just

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#factors #human #human societies #independent #innovation

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#decides #dispensable #elegance #factor #failure

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#against #always #been #conditions #factor

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#although #bear #before #broader #built

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#another #being #business #chance #dramatic

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#factory #farming #greed #i #landscape

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. ↗

— Seth Godin

#align #because #change #connect #factories

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful. ↗

— Lena Headey

#broken #chance #control #especially #exciting