#rio

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#doing #eating #enjoyable #feel #going

I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#after #amazing #beautiful #being #chance

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#because #concerning #curiously #efficacious #efficacy

I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization. ↗

— Randy Moss

#england #i #i am #kind #new

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#curious #done #everything #i #life

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#adult #america #dealing #education #feel

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#embarrassed #find #front #peers #priorities

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#been #disappointed #i #itself #just

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#always #curiosity #even #i #life