#others

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. ↗

— John Major

#dollars #factories #industries #into #inventions

I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#brothers #families #films #gradually #happened

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others. ↗

— John Malkovich

#criticise #crushed #gift #given #me

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. ↗

— Jena Malone

#acceptable #buddha #friendship #jesus #leaders

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#others #philosophy #self-awareness #susan-barton #life

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#big #chunk #corporation #give #goal

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' ↗

— Dan Stevens

#daniel #distract #early #learn #must

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#child #friends #had #i #i remember

Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment. ↗

— Bob Filner

#amendment #country #district #gangs #i

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#america #because #civil #civil liberties #destruction