#lease

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting. ↗

— Ang Lee

#beyond #careers #commercially #crowd #economically

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet. ↗

— John Legend

#get #hearing #i #listen #lot

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue. ↗

— Lotte Lehmann

#had #hoped #i #please #protest

I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#everything #go #happy #heaven #how

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. ↗

— William Adams

#being #contrary #favor #geometry #grace

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter. ↗

— Julian Assange

#civilization #classified #cover #deaths #documents

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#clever #joke #noted #philistine #pleased

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. ↗

— Robert Bork

#either #finding #happy #laws #likely

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#am #belief #creed #easy #i

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#feels #general #give #must #necessary