#sm

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV. ↗

— Sally Kellerman

#films #had #i #just #lot

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. ↗

— William Morris

#beauty

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite. ↗

— Tim Allen

#opposite #saying #smart #somebody #tells

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. ↗

— Margery Allingham

#indefatigable #mind #optimism

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#complain #dumb #get #i #most

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#criticism #endures #even #even worse #fox

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #philosophy #equality

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cleaning #his #income #lady #pays

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#bit #criticism #every #layers #praise