#around

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. ↗

— Sean Parker

#around #bonds #break #came #conform

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#around #california #camps #emigrants #farther

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#around #bummer #especially #hooked #junkie

Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#better #better job #clearly #creating #experience

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#behavior #eccentric #movie #movie set #noticed

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cartoonist #comics #crumb #decided #going

That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point? ↗

— Simon Pegg

#any #around #because #before #get

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#anything #around #city #completely #going

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. ↗

— Mike Pence

#amendment #around #breakthrough #cloning #continues

I'm moving around; doing stuff. I can walk. I can even run. ↗

— William Perry

#doing #even #i #i can #moving