#ratio

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#baby #beyond #birth #both #bring

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want. ↗

— George Lucas

#fun #inspirational #people #respond #star

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#complex #irrational #life #messy #nothing

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything. ↗

— William H. Macy

#just #ninety #percent #preparation

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#assertion #coming #generation #god #honest

Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#community #feel #future #future generations #gay

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. ↗

— James Madison

#ceaseless #centuries #church #europe #forever

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. ↗

— James Madison

#agriculture #america #arts #encouraged #had

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. ↗

— James Madison

#burden #carrying #each #expense #generation

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. ↗

— James Madison

#happiness #liberty #our #permanent #political