#present

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#believe #black #black and white #complicated #i

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#best #best interests #conduct #due #i

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me. ↗

— James Spader

#consumption #eager #films #i #life

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#ask #gets #letters #manuscripts #might

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#different #past #present #study #want

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#because #bette #bette davis #davis #doing

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. ↗

— Stendhal

#earth #events #french #least #most

The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience. ↗

— George Stevens

#audience #being #degradation #film #intended

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#center #conservative #distracted #i #liberal