#pro

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#audience #back #call #commercial #decent

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#ever #freedom #history #making #people

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#become #controversial #hallowed #once #proposals

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#memorandum #protect #reader #writer #written

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#distracts #ego #great #looking #man

Now come,” he said. “Does your Alex love you back, or is he a hopeless idiot?” “He loves me,” she said quietly. “But I’m afraid he’ll stop after we marry. He’ll change his mind. He’ll—” “He’ll love you more. Trust me.” “Really?” She was far too somber. “Really.” He had no words to make her smile, and so Gareth tweaked her nose. And she giggled. It had been a long time since he’d laughed. But despite all those years, he still remembered how. What he’d forgotten was the lightness of his soul when he did so. The moment was perfect. ↗

— Courtney Milan

#gareth #laura #proof-by-seduction #change

The Titanic will protect itself. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#protect #titanic #will

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#governing #history #keepers #law #more

We will make our products work out of the box. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#make #our #out #products #will

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#ask #because #been #before #believe