#rise

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#change #controlling #encourage #even #exactly

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#being #big #big surprise #dream #had

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#claim #computer #doctors #errors #know

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it. ↗

— John Avlon

#ever #important #media #more #parties

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#affect #composition #comprises #conscious #content

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises. ↗

— Bob Barker

#depend #experience #how #i #i do

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#above #awhile #boots #corridors #drawn

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#best #bird #early #failure #happen

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african #african americans #comprise #failure #giving

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#break #break up #crumbles #cults #direct