#ding

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#building #burning #firemen #into #people

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#getting #i #i love #love #spending

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. ↗

— John Edwards

#ceo #company #did #dollars #facts

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#adequate #although #capitals #darfur #each

I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#day #down #first #garden #had

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#choose #decisions #determines #develop #factors

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#easy #film #funding #i #i think

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it. ↗

— Jo Walton

#attitude

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#any #challenge #cure #discovering #effective

Well, our concern has to do with the period prior to 9/11, up to and including the catastrophe that occurred. And thank goodness, we're not obliged to make assessments of what's going on now and deal with these current events. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#catastrophe #concern #current #current events #deal