#is

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#aspiring #being #better #director #disregard

We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#bind #choice #continue #countries #like

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. ↗

— Larry Elder

#america #call #capitalism #consequences #failure

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#anyone #get #i #loves #people

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#evil #flourish #only #people #think

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#becoming #been #citizen #consequently #diminished

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? ↗

— Hermann Goering

#best #come #course #farm #get

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#advance #because #catch #figure #finish

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#conception #generally #got #i #influenced

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible? ↗

— Elizabeth II

#counsel #found #greater #house #imperishable