#ted

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#beat #believing #biggest #citizen #country

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. ↗

— Anderson Cooper

#about #celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #end

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself. ↗

— Shania Twain

#discouraging #doubted #had #i #in the past

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States. ↗

— Max Baucus

#border #canadian #down #now #open

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#discovered #driving #everything #form #obliterated

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#being #changing #constantly #contingent #despised

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#ask #forced #liberated #once #same

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#freedom #i #idea #loved #skydiving

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#being #dislike #had #husband #i

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#above #because #fascinated #people #seems