#rep

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#chinese #chinese food #day #down #eat

One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#air #bureaus #cheaper #facing #great

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#claims #culture #drowned #each #education

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#comes #create #employment #entrepreneurship #more

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#computer #going #idea #look #ludicrous

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#baseball #finely #instrument #little #more

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are. ↗

— Tito Jackson

#behind #certain #fame #gain #glad

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#becomes #difficult #exceed #expectations #fine

George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#biological #blair #bush #chemical #claimed

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#government #i #nicaragua #often #policies