#pen

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right? ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#happens #life #other #right #things

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. ↗

— James Chanos

#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile. ↗

— James Chanos

#banking system #built #china #chinese #clear

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#believe #clothing #collectively #depends #earth

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#film #happen #happening #like #make

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#confederation #exist #independent #only #states

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#around #certain #change #dollars #dramatically

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#asking #bad #different #final #final analysis

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#committed #crime #growing #growing old #haven

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box. ↗

— Bobby Charlton

#debatable #decision #even #fair #inside