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One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. ↗

— Siegfried Lenz

#balance #comes #decades #embarrassment #into

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#emotion #emotions #full #harder #masks

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ↗

— John Leonard

#baseball #basketball #cumulative #football #game

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#activists #again #believe #challenge #doubt

A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo. ↗

— Jared Leto

#ask #band #common #common thing #day

But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#easier #games #hemisphere #means #more

This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#asleep #away #battery #bone #cut

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#driving #more #risky #than #yeah

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#classes #few #get #harvard #i

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#anybody #anything #ask #been #come