#lit

Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#continue #contribute #contributions #country #creditor

With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#between #concerned #countries #dialogue #earlier

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. ↗

— Plato

#content #greatest #little #live #wealth

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#around #breathe #eat #his #hollywood

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#life #man #politician #private #public

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#audience #been #budgets #case #each

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#enjoy #film #films #i #i think

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles." (Young India, 22 October 1925) ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conscience #humanity #morality #politics #principles

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#compliment #equality #friends #how #implies

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#bit #costs #dollars #everything #film