#mac

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. ↗

— George Takei

#barbed #barbed wire #became #camp #guard

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#alone #balancing #communication #concert #conflicting

Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle. ↗

— Maxwell D. Taylor

#government #here #how #know #machinery

As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#because #borg #called #crazy #else

She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#addict #been #big #big success #contract

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#bought #cardboard #father #got #i

I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#government #had #having #i #i see

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine. ↗

— Sean Astin

#cars #convertible #driving #ever #expensive

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#characters #does #ego #just #lot

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#anybody #anymore #back #call #calls