#ear

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#correspondent #countries #foreign #history #i

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#any #countries #deployments #given #states

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#audition #away #film #house #i

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#am #day #emptiness #fear #feeling

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artists #changed #exotic #last #learned

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#back #came #first #half #i

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#been #by the time #company #culmination #decision

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#dreary #enthusiasm #just #kicked #lot

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#bloody #cinema #communicated #complex #direct

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#appliances #become #becoming #clothing #country