#thing

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#asked #certainly #concept #different #different things

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#audience #been #blockbusters #brought #down

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#children #college #know #leave #life

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#finished #hard #know #never #nothing

I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#eye #i #i think #important #keep

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#anything #beauty #creativity #curved #line

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#everything #get #must #people #through

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dangerous #man #most #play #plaything

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#function #given #interpretation #power #prevails

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#friend #guessing #keeping #master #must