#ted

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.' ↗

— Lili Taylor

#before #biological #body #clock #data

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated. ↗

— Jena Malone

#because #belief #destructive #easily #manipulated

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#created #economic #firstly #granted #people

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now. ↗

— Karl Malone

#i #lot #me #now #other

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#bet #better #between #calculated #calculated risk

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#fertilize #genius #interpret #itself #much

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#become #created #crucial #discovery #had

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#deserted #emigration #great #implies #kind

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#been #concentration #greatest #inside #los