#see

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery? ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#because #every #holocaust #last #last time

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.' ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#anymore #celebrity #go #good #got

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#kind #matters #me #music #place

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#attributable #between #biological #broadest #continental

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#eternity #itself #mantelpiece #meaning #mind

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#cherishes #couple #democracy #experiment #free

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it? ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#back #book #does #else #family

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#contribution #distinctive #enabling #generations #healing

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#leap #looks #makes #see #then

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen. ↗

— Pauline Frederick

#like #listen #look #man #people