#ma

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#funny #interesting #interesting people #most #people

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose. ↗

— Arvid Carlsson

#differently #dose #even #fixed #individuals

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction. ↗

— Sarah Strohmeyer

#fiction #romance #funny

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do. ↗

— John Carmack

#focus #going #matter #things #you

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#dr #island #left #livingstone #march

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. ↗

— Robert Caro

#cost #effect #effects #good #how

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#became #become #danger #future #man

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks. ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

#being #happen #learning #magic #make

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#harmony #i #manner #spontaneous #studied

I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#dog #end #farm #gone #i