#pan

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#attention span #been #good #i #never

Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well. ↗

— Mario Lopez

#could #create #eventually #great #i

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#educate #expand #horizon #intelligence #wants

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#creative #ego #expands #faculties #increases

When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#come #company #film #me #red

We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea. ↗

— John Cameron

#developed #idea #imaging #interested #optimize

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #bought #brazilians #came #families

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#else #everything #invent #issued #lungs

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#allies #america #breed #corners #declared

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. ↗

— Francis Marion

#fruit #japanese #like #make #often