#ted

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. ↗

— Michael Porter

#behind #billions #business #decades #ineffective

I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#excuse #get #good #had #head

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#badly #consequences #doing #embarrassing #end

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#definitely #different #hard #i #kid

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#beginning #berlin #came #circumstances #civilization

I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected. ↗

— James Purefoy

#big fan #fan #i #like #patterns

Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes. ↗

— Rob Portman

#been #countries #economy #europe #focused

I started cooking out of middle school depression. ↗

— Zac Posen

#depression #i #middle #middle school #out

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it. ↗

— Jon Postel

#article #clearly #computer #explaining #interesting

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted. ↗

— Jon Postel

#i #predicted #quite #really #something