#story

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#curb #deter #force #hiroshima #history

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.' ↗

— Justin Bieber

#future #going #got #how #i

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #both #cliches #election #every

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say? ↗

— David Graeber

#democracy #history #politics #equality

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#action film #film #gets #going #good

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#frailty #history #opinion #public #public opinion

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#brother #family #favorite #had #nominated

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting. ↗

— Connie Britton

#american #attracted #before #exciting #felt

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes. ↗

— David Broder

#been #declared #financing #first #first time

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#journalism #know #storytelling #you