#ali

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#been #being #decide #early #fascinating

I'm an idealist without illusions. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#idealist #illusions #without

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man. ↗

— Ray Nitschke

#character #flowing #go #got #hang

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. ↗

— Larry Niven

#even #hindsight #inevitable #may #out

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. ↗

— Larry Niven

#far #get #looking #mistakes #penalized

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#alienate #audience #because #controversial #deal

...it must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul... ↗

— John Geddes

#beauty-fleeting #soul #superficiality #wisdom #beauty

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

#does #great #heal #healer #healing

In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#been #changed #did #fallen #feel

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. ↗

— Mathieu Kerekou

#fatality #honour #humiliation #less #position