#gains

The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against. ↗

— John Crowley

#bottom #bottom line #come #difficulties #great

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence. ↗

— John Cusack

#affirm #against #always #begin #else

I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people. ↗

— Randy Forbes

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That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do. ↗

— Karl Urban

#always #attempting #come #concept #dream

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#being #being different #could #depression #different

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#claim #comes #condition #deck #dues

I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#align #also #always #bar #believe

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#aware #course #each #followed #fully

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. ↗

— Ellen Key

#against #barbaric #barbarity #being #collectively

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#against #argument #average #best #conversation