#taking

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#culture #cultures #description #history #ideally

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#grand #marvellous #mexico #said #situation

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#achieve #capable #east #europe #middle

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it? ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#back #blogs #everyone #i #i do

Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks. ↗

— Ruth Westheimer

#because #good #helped #i #looking

If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#end #feeling #great #great feeling #high

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that's not freedom! That's control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understands freedom to be the freedom to take risks, the freedom to do something bad or appear foolish. To not recognize that difference is a pretty big thing. [...] "It's like with improv," Misha said. "True improv is about surprising yourself--but most people won't improvise truthfully. They're afraid. What they do is pull from their bag of tricks. They take what they already know how to do and apply it to the present situation. But that's cheating! And cheating's bad for an artist. It's bad in life--but it's really bad in art." -p.20-1, How Should A Person Be ↗

— Sheila Heti

#control #freedom #improvisation #living-well #risk-taking

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#dubious #excellent #great #job #like

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#believe #care #god #i #lower

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#afraid #because #congress #elected #go