#mit

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. ↗

— George Washington

#burdens #governments #history #laid #marvel

I like my anonymity - that when I meet people they don't know me. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#i #know #like #me #meet

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#controversy #crackpot #danger #expose #fear

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. ↗

— Alan Watts

#connected #everything #far #forest #get

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#film #formulaic #get #i #i think

If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#admit #always #am #ask #been

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#anybody #anything #art work #came #finally

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up. ↗

— Gene Ween

#big #cracks #everybody #fan #him

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. ↗

— Simone Weil

#commit #crucifixion #envy #every #every time

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. ↗

— Simone Weil

#denies #formulates #intelligence #merely #opinions