#mati

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past. ↗

— John Thorn

#employment #exile #extended #families #involuntary

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. ↗

— Norton Juster

#connect #fact #information #learn #piece

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#appropriately #becomes #ceases #confirmation #discussion

If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#any #associate #conducted #exploit #ghraib

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#find #get #goal #going #however

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination. ↗

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

#animation #everything #i #i love #imagination

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#deal #decisions #directing #experience #force

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

#author #better #dead #dramatic #only

I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk. ↗

— Peter King

#against #american #american lives #because #firm

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#art world #elect #elite #galleries #i