#si

I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with. ↗

— Robert Culp

#behavior #down #first #had #happen

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#being #cannot #england #escape #look

One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster. ↗

— John Michael Greer

#economics #myth #peak-oil #age

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#the-silver-metal-lover #young-adult #age

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#could #even #experts #generation #mothers

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything. ↗

— Gloria Gaynor

#compare #just #live #live music #music

We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest -- the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest -- finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are among the most daunting -- bipeds, newly arrived by cosmic time scales trying to reveal the secrets of the ages; and the quest is among the deepest -- the search for fundamental laws to explain all we see and beyond, from the tiniest particles to the most distant galaxies. ↗

— Brian Greene

#science #the-universe #age

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things’. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#passion #life

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house. ↗

— Kaley Cuoco

#actually #amazing #been #business #childhood

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#aspirations #become #confusing #distracting #frustrating