#pre

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it. ↗

— Michael Bay

#harbor #i #i love #lot #love

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment. ↗

— David Beckham

#big #career #country #few #i

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#avoided #better #dangers #destiny #exceeds

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film. ↗

— Kabir Bedi

#cinema #faces #film #formulae #generation

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#disciplined #fierce #flame #flickering #heart

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school. ↗

— Martha Beck

#certain #certain things #get #others #parents

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#also #ask #attempting #cosmopolitan #dialogue

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#attack #background #experience #future #interventions

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#girl #homely #i #nearly #nerdy