#ss

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas. ↗

— Harvey S. Firestone

#business #capital #experience #get #ideas

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects. ↗

— Colin Firth

#absolutely #care #change #defects #end

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. ↗

— Colin Firth

#adrift #america #appealed #because #been

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. ↗

— Colin Firth

#been #complicity #engaged #grandparents #grown

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#be true #compassion #despair #faith #generals

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#bad #feet #get #glass #jig

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#away #competition #democracy #essential #i

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#formless #isolated #law #mass

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different. ↗

— Colin Firth

#different #doing #going #hitting #idea

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#called #come #daughter #dog #i