#d

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#contribute #developing #developing world #done #frankly

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#energy #enjoyable #ever #give #home

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. ↗

— David Viscott

#because #cure #discover #disease #evils

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#because #father #form #high #i

This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls! ↗

— Emma Thompson

#bits #cut #daughter #dolls #felt

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#back #basic #basic things #certain #democracy

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#destruction #greatest #mass #nations #rogue

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#ancient #culture #games #investigate #just

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#end #end result #enviable #enviable position #get

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#example #for example #greater #health #houses