#thou

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#clearly #could #i #lucky #morally

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. ↗

— Georg Cantor

#itself #many #set #thought

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. ↗

— Frank Capra

#called #courage #eyes #film #gable

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room. ↗

— Linda Cardellini

#brother #compared #doing #especially #front

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there. ↗

— Kitty Carlisle

#came #den #ends #hollywood #iniquity

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#adequate #civilization #could #evolved #food supply

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. ↗

— Friedrich Ebert

#democracy #freedom #matter #reactionary #using

I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#cheerleader #even #head #high #high school

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#concentrating #even #film #happening #i

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#because #britain #calling #competition #complete