#ions

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#author #checking #distractions #done #email

Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship. ↗

— Wilmer Valderrama

#meaningful #most #relationship

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#decisions #devotion #discipline #god

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. ↗

— Juan Cole

#discussions #dominate #i #i think #nevertheless

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#people #relationships #life

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#case #corporations #environmental #every #hazards

I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#beans #because #being #best #counting

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#answer #concerning #economic #economic theory #exact

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#answers #exactly #found #frustrating #happening

Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again. ↗

— Melinda Clarke

#auditions #being #busy #felt #had