#ect

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. ↗

— William Hague

#degree #effectiveness #gain #gives #having

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#direction #everybody #gets #having #mind

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#imperfection #kind

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#feels #foreseeable #foreseeable future #future #however

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#direction #get #larger #larger companies #tendency

'The White Ribbon' had to be in German because of the subject matter, that was clear. But in the case of 'Amour,' it could have taken place in any country. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#because #case #clear #could #country

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#dealing #familiar #hysterical #laughing #laughter

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#campuses #centers #college #college campuses #crisis

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ↗

— James Harden

#hats #i