#form

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#favor #forms #his #imagination #moment

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#executive #had #man #perform #place

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#dream #entertain #fiction #form #ideas

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#damned #i #me #nobody #performance

When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#brain #comes #faster #first #head

When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#attribute #common #cool #couch #game

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#albums #cut #every #i #king

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#auditioned #canadian #college #golden #honestly

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #apology #been #being #chinese