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Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. ↗

— Hermann Goering

#fat #guns #makes #merely #powerful

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light. ↗

— David Bailey

#around #because #hang #i #light

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#beneficial #between #dominant #important #man

So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department. ↗

— Dusty Baker

#any #areas #by the time #department #every

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out. ↗

— Carla Bley

#i #like #lush #out #parts

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. ↗

— David Baldacci

#about #anything #expectations #i #much

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #era #ever #feel #hardly

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion. ↗

— Peter Bart

#discussion #first #four #green-light #i

I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy. ↗

— Mischa Barton

#drives #gossip #i #i think #large

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#efficient #failings #know #know yourself #only