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When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#between #fixed #growing #growing up #i

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#coming #freedom #little #mean #more

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#doing #feel #filmmakers #find #had

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#different #different ways #evaluate #hard #hard thing

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #both #certain #conventions #directors

When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#audience #i #liberal #mind #open

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#guy #i #skinny #up #want

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#evening #higher #life #morning #much

I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that. ↗

— Suzanne Somers

#eat #eating #friends #i #like

To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task. ↗

— Sophocles

#doing #doing good #glorious #good #good deeds