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Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support. ↗

— Mario Batali

#live #living #nurturing #society #standard

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#approach #around #box #box office #business

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#changing #disappearing #family #look #metaphors

I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period. ↗

— Kathy Bates

#challenge #character #different #different kind #empathy

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

#dividing line #fellow #halfway #line #meet

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#fired #instances #neurons #only #some

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#looking #other #people #things #within

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#high #how #really #small #sometimes

Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#being #between #choose #circumstances #country

I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior , I just can not believe that other people don't care. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#appearance #believe #care #cares #concerned