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Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#apparently #balancing #flags #flying #grand

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#away #chef #get #older #palate

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#all things #anything #basically #hardly #head

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#forgive #get #god #how #hurt

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score. ↗

— Ralph Richardson

#audience #bars #because #cannot #changing

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later. ↗

— Diego Rivera

#become #continue #did #died #fact

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#epoch #into #space #translated #will

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#bilateral #control #countries #decision-making #decision-making process

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement. ↗

— Al Roker

#begin #get #gig #i #just

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment. ↗

— Gary Ross

#another #controlling #environment #fascism #fears