#enter

In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden's compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#city #compound #enter #february #first

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#candy #center #had #ice #ice age

When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center. ↗

— Gary Allan

#end #flailing #opinions #other #people

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that. ↗

— Ted Allen

#applause #approval #both #cooking #course

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground. ↗

— Peter Bart

#basic #become #certainly #cozy #emerging

The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit. ↗

— Michael Bay

#because #better #boring #brain #brain surgery

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. ↗

— George Berkeley

#fails #itself #liberty #mind #nothing

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. ↗

— Julian Bond

#entered #into #legal #passed #period

'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#content #entertaining #ever #history #king

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#center #everything #green #mountain #rain