#om

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding! ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#also #award #bleeding #boast #clicked

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#chinese #chinese food #day #down #eat

Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#enlightenment #important #important thing #itself #just

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#company #connected #creation #creativity #current

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#answer #bill #bill gates #boom #different

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#i #next #next time #pay #pay attention

I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#bringing #competition #general #good #great

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#benjamin franklin #especially #felt #foreign #foreign policy

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#carve #compete #good #helm #journalism

In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#baghdad #colonels #everybody #expensive #go