#contra

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.' ↗

— Michel Gondry

#am #consume #consumer #contradiction #could

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything. ↗

— Val Guest

#bits #bits and pieces #comedy #comics #contract

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives. ↗

— Fawn Hall

#details #did #i #initiatives #iran

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#art #contrast #create #diffusion #exposure

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#contrary #course #desired #destiny #history

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#different #different places #drama #good #good drama

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals. ↗

— Bernard Hinault

#cycling #depicted #distributors #harshly #health

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#consistent #contradict #honestly #mean #more

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#contract #eye #light #like #mind