#akin

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. ↗

— David Brin

#been #both #both sides #contact #encounter

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#circumstances #constantly #difficult #difficult people #making

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad. ↗

— Dakota Fanning

#cry #did #finished #fire #get

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#because #businesses #fines #green #health

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#business #every #every time #folk #folk music

When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#issues #moral #moral issues #rather #social

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#comes #feel #find #funny #humor

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#draw #fact #film #i #images

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#anyone #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #during

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#absorb #awful #grave #hands #lean