#um

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#actor #albums #amused #carlin #comedy

One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know. ↗

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

#believe #change #depend #fifth #fish

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#attention #brought #cannot #circumstances #closer

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter. ↗

— Russell Baker

#anything #business #either #evil #humanity

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#ages #books #civilization #great #harvest

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#assumptions #choice #dictated #driven #economy

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#attraction #cannot #circumstance #coupled #england

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#altogether #depend #does #each #effort

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes. ↗

— Russell Baker

#causes #chain #feel #feel good #good

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#contrary #even #happiness #him #his