#den

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#fit #i #interviewed #kind #know

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#first #first love #i #incidentally #looking

What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver? ↗

— Brian Williams

#applications #cameras #colorado #denver #does

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#especially #independent #independent movies #money #movies

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#about #almost #become #consulting #corporations

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived. ↗

— Halle Berry

#how #i #identify #matter #me

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa? ↗

— Marion Berry

#am #because #city #deny #i

People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are. ↗

— Marion Berry

#assure #because #criticised #detail #i

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#body #burden #down #dragged #drags