#my

When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains. ↗

— Rob Portman

#bush #capital #capital gains #clinton #economy

I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff. ↗

— Franka Potente

#cool #depp #fault #guy #him

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms) ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#contact #deadness #emotional #emotions #fear

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#i #life #my life #responsibility #surrender

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. ↗

— Richard Powers

#economy #eyes #makes #market #market economy

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#answer #asked #driver #everyone #fashion

I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good. ↗

— Chris Pratt

#eaten #game #good #i #life

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam. ↗

— Richard Price

#get #going #i #into #jam

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it. ↗

— David Prowse

#career #going #hope #huge #i

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#being #being in love #china #doubt #ever