#do

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing? ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#am #because #book #certain #certain point

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#doubt #fool #going #greatest #greatest obstacle

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows. ↗

— Colin Hay

#better #doing #drink #drinking #getting

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ↗

— Colin Hay

#anyone #connection #doubt #else #fancied

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it. ↗

— Mike Myers

#could #done #give #had #i

Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#feminist #joss-whedon #pro-feminist #whedon #equality

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#complete #dependence #fact #freedom #generation

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#better #done #longer #man #than

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#fact #freedom #full #incompatible #individual