#pa

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#communications #get #global #help #how

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#build #converge #find #good #hard

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#day #diary #doing #future #good

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#bunch #friends #i #living #partying

You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#else #everybody #everybody else #hollywood #hurry

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. ↗

— Ang Lee

#american #attracts #because #desert #drama

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is. ↗

— Ang Lee

#different #different points #films #genuine #ignore

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them. ↗

— Ang Lee

#hate #i #in the past #liked #made

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. ↗

— Ang Lee

#age #became #collective #event #glorified