#la

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#choice #could #earnings #figured #film

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#better place #enable #live #lives #make

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#been #being #charming #early #evil

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#becoming #city #fantastic #i #knows

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. ↗

— Plutarch

#failings #far #faults #habits #individuals

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas. ↗

— John Podesta

#ask #delay #did #house #lock

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. ↗

— Don Shula

#himself #inferior #man #others #superior

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#arises #experience #irrelevant #larger #perhaps

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States. ↗

— John Poindexter

#applying #awareness #because #beginning #counterterrorism