#more

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#epic #family #give #his #i

Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#both #die #important #life #meaningless

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ↗

— Euripides

#clever #evil #friend #good #good man

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#also #battles #between #conflict #deeply

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power. ↗

— James Bovard

#agents #child #child support #daily #daily lives

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#been #censorship #could #even #general

A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#always #bobby #extraordinary #focus #hiring

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#conservative #ever #liberal #line #moderate

I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#chickens #computer #eggs #extensive #food

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that? ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#before #brains #certain #certain things #connected