#stands

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#burn #destroy #else #ever #flag

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them. The Superclass, everyone's dream, a world without shadows or darkness, where yes is the only possible answer to any request. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#the-winner-stands-alone #dreams

If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important. ↗

— Tony Romo

#demands #get #great #i #i think

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#boy #carries #more #out #suggestions

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#correctly #does #done #foolish #him

We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path. ↗

— Rafik Hariri

#anybody #country #democratic #difference #differences

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#critical #heritage #history #immigrants #nation

Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#end #end of the world #global #global warming #going

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#being #book #booker #different #every