#ted

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. ↗

— Nancy Friday

#bill #children #debt #father #forward

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early. ↗

— Francois Gautier

#born #catholic #early #education #fitted

To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#interested #interview #person #really #truly

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#any #bangkok #completely #did #ever

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

#characters #counter #counters #dialogue #eye

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#ambitious #behind #certain #could #efficiency

But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#am #automobile #automobile industry #because #costs

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#aggression #america #army #attack #demonstrates

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#face #full #hated #i #long