#press

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. ↗

— Julian Assange

#between #china #enormous #freedom #freedom of speech

One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express. ↗

— John Astin

#appreciation #being #easy #express #fake

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people. ↗

— Mackenzie Astin

#baseball #broadcast #games #good #i

I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost. ↗

— David Attenborough

#adventure #ago #approach #days #didactic

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#different #expressions #manifestations #nothing #order

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. ↗

— Erik Larson

#historical-novel #change

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#best #best part #express #part #picture

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#faith #impressed #lacks #sound #who

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#begin #does #effectively #enough #know