#pro

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#bad #bad thing #going #i #know

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#been #build #by the time #come #company

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#diverse #everybody #feel #generation #i

I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#company #doing #facebook #i #i think

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#debt #doubling #get #growing #money

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#i #know #out #people #probably

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#correct #editors #fact #greater #i

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#constitution #else #exercising #fact #free

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule. ↗

— Gary Ross

#because #catching #consideration #decided #despite

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#earth #expand #fiction #human #mars