#no

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#attention span #been #bit #haven #i

Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress? Is it possible that constant fear is the natural state of man and that by living close to my fear I am actually doing something heroic, Murray?" Do you feel heroic?" No." Then you probably aren't. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#nature

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#college #emerson #gold #knowledge #wealth

We'll be living in all the oceans now.. ↗

— Mallory Knox

#mickey-knox #natural-born-killers #nature

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#comfortable #doing #feeling #nothing #very

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #apartheid #around #corporate #could

We do see significant signs of a slowdown, in the economy worldwide. ↗

— Marek Belka

#see #significant #signs #worldwide

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#cannot #civilization #much #palpable #people

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#nature

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack. ↗