#hr

The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#american #american administration #another #clout #control

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#boat #clothes #crew #crew members #four

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. ↗

— Jack Levine

#critics #directors #had #movement #museum

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions. ↗

— David Attenborough

#dimensions #fact #first #first time #gear

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. ↗

— David Attenborough

#decisions #electorate #environment #get #history

The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired. ↗

— Colleen Atwood

#been #designs #eyes #filtered #gone

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anthropology #belongs #history #questions #sociology

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#because #characters #easily #i #i can

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#i #i write #know #more #move

I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time. ↗

— Bille August

#afternoon #almost #bergman #different #different things