#ow

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#differently #good #interesting #know #makes

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#earning #i #i do #i was born #living

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. ↗

— David Knopfler

#club #creative #expectation #figured #fit

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#cold #efficient #eliminate #fact #fraud

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#end #going #good #i #know

So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#box #box office #does #drive #droves

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. ↗

— Eli Whitney

#back #fear #given #go #greater

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. ↗

— J. Martin Kohe

#greatest #person #possesses #power

I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise. ↗

— John Sweeney

#getting #i #otherwise #out #people

If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know. ↗

— Jonathan D. Spence

#experience #hearsay #knowledge #observation #experience