#sam

There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#blueprint #crisis #financial #fixing #global

When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head. ↗

— Ethan Embry

#change #drastically #film #finish #get

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#calls #conviction #firm #firm conviction #go

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#chaos #enlightenment #force #god #human

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills. ↗

— Ranulph Fiennes

#bills #estate #expeditions #go #houses

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it. ↗

— Michael Finley

#away #basketball #enjoy #exposure #get

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture. ↗

— John Fiske

#culture #discourses #experience #frame #ideological

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#ability #first-rate #function #hold #ideas

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#as far as #changes #concerned #ever #far

This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#branches #confining #done #hundred #may