#ect

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#acceptance #changes #considered #defect #does

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go. ↗

— Yao Ming

#going #just #language #learn #let go

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#am #direct #director #films #found

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#astronomical #become #entire #flower #foundation

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#character #direct #excited #going #i

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office. ↗

— Walter F. Mondale

#bottom #down #edge #election #elective

The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#before #born #brought #children #divorce

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#before #big #big business #breaking #business

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#interested #lot #never #not interested #reactions

A brick could be used to describe somebody hard and inflexible, and a blanket could be used to describe somebody warm and easygoing.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny