#contra

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years. ↗

— Larry Buchanan

#acting #bit #contract #doing #fox

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#better #better person #breath #contract #deep

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#contracts #go #manager #over

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#community #competent #contradiction #direct #habits

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. ↗

— Albert Camus

#blinds #contrary #enhances #every #falsehood

Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#dry #experience #getting #more #much

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#even #false #intelligence #many #more

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#answer #assertions #commission #contradictions #experience

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#compassion #contradictions #duty #fall #i