#laced

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#been #bottled #crew #gone #hasn

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#being #centre #even #feel #find

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#computer #going #idea #look #ludicrous

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #chance #condition #conscience #depend

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#again #apple #beginner #being #best

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#father #figure #five #had #hard

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#being #catholic #catholic school #early #even

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#characters #good #good stories #i #i always

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#entire #entire nation #fate #great #hands

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#brought #discredit #end #gifts #hands