#ted

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#because #big #big head #devastated #get

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#asserted #authority #children #during #endeavoured

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side. ↗

— Christo

#because #chances #decision #deliberately #difficult

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly. ↗

— James Chanos

#accounted #any #derivatives #done #evil

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price. ↗

— James Chanos

#asset #bubble #building #buy #cash

My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around. ↗

— Neneh Cherry

#around #back #because #coming #committed

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#experience #find #i #intimately #married

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#half #problem #solved #stated

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#fact #i #i am #invented #kill

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself. ↗

— Hank Williams

#found #good #had #i #imitator