#ding

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#family #high #i #know #live

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#building #go #high #high level #i

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know. ↗

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#believe #change #depend #fifth #fish

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. ↗

— David Antin

#everybody #everybody else #find #giving #giving up

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die. ↗

— Mary Antin

#commands #czar #die #except #left

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. ↗

— Mary Antin

#birth #bits #body #born #exceedingly

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#because #behind #between #i #importance

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #empty #empty space #film #i

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#course #face #fighting #gay #majority

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#bad #correspondingly #good #man #she