#eh

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#comprehend #dreams #film #i #les

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#about #cars #connections #culture #helps

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#changes #leaving #less #melancholy #more

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it. ↗

— Julia Barr

#get #see #something #well-written #you

It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#itself #just #like #lot #make

had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins ↗

— George Orwell

#equality

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#behavior #compassion #suffer #vegetarian #experience

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#lot #love #making #making money #manufacturer

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#been #fun #golf #golf balls #guess

I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#basically #because #behind #best #budget