#ole

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it.That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#always #became #because #been #breakdown

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film. ↗

— Michael Apted

#because #become #between #digitally #edit

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family. ↗

— Avi Arad

#family #feeling #fighting #kids #me

I had a dual role: designer and advocate. ↗

— Michael Arad

#designer #dual #had #i #role

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#absolutely #appears #course #disappearance #ends

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. ↗

— Aristotle

#better #business #clearly #common #create

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #changed #democracy #freedom #got

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#couple #happened #happens #luck #lucky

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#actor #as far as #because #comedy #considered

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #christianity #christians #crusades #east