#bubble

Consider the recent financial crisis and its link to faulty reward systems. President Bill Clinton's objective of increasing homeownership by rewarding potential home buyers and lenders is one example. The Clinton administration "went to ridiculous lengths" to increase homeownership in the United State, promoting "paper-thin down payments" and pushing lenders to give mortgage loans to unqualified buyers according to Business Week editor Peter Coy. ↗

— Max H. Bazerman

#economics #ethics #housing-bubble #business

When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#because #books #bubble #funny #golf

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#bubble #dance #dancers #every #gum

We live in a strange bubble. ↗

— Brian Molko

#live #strange

But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here. ↗

— David Petraeus

#bubble #clearly #even #every #fire

Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#bed #box #boy #bubble #door

Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world. ↗

— James P. Krehbiel

#facing-problems #growth #motivation #stepping-out-of-the-bubble #change

I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide for low-voltage outdoor lighting. It wasn't thrilling bubble-bath reading material, but I was impressed by his imagination. You wouldn't know from the writing that he'd never actually seen a low-voltage lighting system in someone's yard, much less installed one himself. His descriptions were clear, colorful, and written with authority. The inscription wasn't bad either: To Natalie, You're a high-voltage system as far as I am concerned. ↗

— Lee Goldberg

#fake #fraudulence #inscription #instruction-manual #instructions

...the real junk food is what Frank Lloyd Wright called light entertainment - bubblegum for the eye ... ↗

— John Geddes

#entertainment #frank-lloyd-wright #inspiration #junk-food #food

What, if as said, man is a bubble. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#man #said