#earl

You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#am #ask #asking #comfortable #early

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#being #being pretty #i #mean #movies

The public highways, which had been constructed for the use of the legions, opened an easy passage for the Christians missionaries from Damascus to Corinth, and from Italy to the extremity of Spain or Britain; nor did those spiritual conquerors encounter any of the obstacles which usually retard or prevent the introduction of a foreign religion into a distant country. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#religion

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#angels #clearly #complicated #consider #devil

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country. ↗

— William Kunstler

#been #cambodia #come #country #earlier

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#career #door #earlier #enough #foot

The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way. ↗

— Greg Lake

#early #pioneering #way #were

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#definitely #gay #had #i #knew

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conversely #direct #evidence #known #nearly

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. ↗

— Philip Roth

#army #clearly #even #glass #home