#ra

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#before #bottom #bottom line #budget #challenges

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#children #completely #grow #grow up #i

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#achieve #between #continual #continually #difficult

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#actor #anything #became #been #except

I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#enjoy #guys #hang #high #high school

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#i #life #mostly #rational #take

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#because #capitalist #capitalist society #communications #consist

When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#harmony #heart #inspirational #instument #life

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#change #civilization #emergence #hundreds #knowing

I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last? ↗

— Michael Douglas

#angelina #beautiful #beautiful woman #brad #brad pitt