#mma

Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#anyone #bin #chief #commander #critical

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#constant #dilemmas #horns #life #life is a

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. ↗

— John Milius

#filmmaker #films #more #nothing #pretentious

Everybody's a filmmaker today. ↗

— John Milius

#everybody #filmmaker #today

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. ↗

— John Milius

#commander #director #egotism #even #field

The filmmakers always have a great level of control. ↗

— John Milius

#control #filmmakers #great #level

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #commandment #honor #i #i see

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. ↗

— Slobodan Milosevic

#countries #foreign #forget #history #language

The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#beginning #door #emma #every #first

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#comment #effect #four #hard #hundred