#imp

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#any #because #comedy #factor #ground

And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#around #ask #audience #brand #built

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people. ↗

— Alan Bates

#believe #i #i do #impossible #living

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are. ↗

— Alan Bates

#because #individual #offbeat #own #part

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#further #impact #internal #matter #object

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#explain #impossible #invoking #pattern #principle

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry. ↗

— Max Baucus

#foreign #global #governments #had #ignored

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. ↗

— Max Baucus

#been #china #critical #former #human

U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets. ↗

— Max Baucus

#beef #face #high-quality #important #including