#ted

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#else #ensure #everyone #greatest #greatest strength

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically. ↗

— Tony Blair

#always #big #century #cold #cold war

There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. ↗

— Tony Blair

#defeat #defeated #just #meeting #minds

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. ↗

— Tony Blair

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#california #came #credentials #dejected #dreams

I've directed independent film. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#film #i #independent #independent film

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#how #i #interested #make #me

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. ↗

— Walt Disney

#characters #common #created #depth #dimension

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#every #every man #man #right #successful