#rio

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#compatible #cultures #democracy #germany #important

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious. ↗

— William Shatner

#creative #easier #industrious #lazy #man

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#enlarged #forms #free #good #government

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#height #hounded #mccarthy #period #were

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#about #aware #background #because #heroes

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#expected #first #i #just #moon

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#figure #get #how #i #i do

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#being #end #ever #inferior #man

Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#almost #any #artistic #before #beginning

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#driven #moguls #period #profit #respective