#ada

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy. ↗

— Charles Manson

#being #crazy #everybody #know #long

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#adapt #braces #buck #change #comfortable

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#been #books #few #i #know

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. ↗

— Yann Martel

#beautiful #canada #exists #faith #i

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. ↗

— Yann Martel

#canadian #four #i #live #more

A true champion can adapt to anything. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#anything #champion #true

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#become #compromise #fame #france #happened

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#because #box #box office #corporate #different

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#art #aspect #autonomy #aware #counter

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#change #consequence #consists #described #diversification