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So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' ↗

— Tim Vine

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I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#i #idea #often #problem #said

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#adjust #always #change #destination #direction

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#certain #conspicuously #course #deter #deterrence

Who ever said that one was born just once? ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#ever #just #once #said #who

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#alone #deduction #intuition #knowledge #must

At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that. ↗

— William Devane

#character #come #episodes #hell #me

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said. ↗

— William Devane

#always #being #bring #go #greg

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities. ↗

— John Thune

#any #because #difference #i #kind

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #although #been #behind #biggest