#v

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#economics #herd-behavior #behavior

Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#all day #day #four #get #go

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#being #degree #everyone #hollywood #i

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#am #authority #because #being #believe

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#cold #cold war #end #much #nation

I had to learn to think, feel and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life-preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life-preserver which sinks them. ↗

— Henry Miller

#life

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. ↗

— May Sarton

#deprivation #gifts #give #loves #most

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#believe #camp #concentration #disproved #existence

One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test. ↗

— Jim Sasser

#almost #asked #christ #congressman #fell

To truly love someone you have to see their flaws. See the dark side. The things you don't like. ↗

— Lee Monroe

#lee-monroe #love