#quit

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. ↗

— John Searle

#berkeley #body #element #feature #general

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country. ↗

— David Sedaris

#american #american culture #ask #back #country

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#communities #give #hindu #human #human race

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#back #back to school #contrary #doing #goes

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#amazing #around #backwards #baghdad #dad

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#first #gave #hunt #lift #our

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

#after #constant #grasped #i #never

It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include. ↗

— John Sexton

#camera #elements #find #glass #green

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me. ↗

— John Sexton

#cooperative #general #general manager #had #magical