#tract

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#becomes #ironically #longer #look #more

Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#allows #carpet #layer #nice #package

I do not see scales as abstract. ↗

— James Galway

#i #i do #scales #see

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#change #everything #first #first impression #go

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#attracted #because #careers #come #compensation

I didn't feel attractive in high school. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#feel #high #high school #i #school

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#actress #better #children #could #distracted

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#agenda #allow #been #contact #distract

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. ↗

— David Lynch

#attracted #concept #i #something

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. ↗

— David Lynch

#between #connected #exist #here #i