#tory

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon. ↗

— Amanda Bynes

#camp #comedy #did #doing #factory

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#ear #story #voice

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#great #great man #great men #history #lives

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#attitude #baptists #because #believe #between

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#carter #center #disease #earth #elimination

History is the science of things which are not repeated. ↗

— Paul Valery

#repeated #science #things #which

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#half #prepared #victory

To be prepared is half the victory. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#half #prepared #victory

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#boring #coded #computers #facebook #hard

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#any #bring #color #despairing #dominant