#here

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#airport #anything #been #cool #drive

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#cynics #deny #here #i #i think

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#build #converge #find #good #hard

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#get #hereditary #insanity #you #your

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy. ↗

— Ang Lee

#certain #certain way #chinese #convince #democracy

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing. ↗

— Ang Lee

#four #like #lot #observe #pass

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#asia #cold #cold war #course #extension

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#america #budget #class #clear #designed

I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#around #bit #case #come #come and go

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#future #gone #happened #hasn #here