#van

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. ↗

— Angela Davis

#awareness #certain #i #i think #made

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#because #before #came #doors #going

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all. ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#edge #i #states #would

I saw that office display the other day at the modern gallery. I just didn’t know what I was looking at. A still life of a secretary’s cluttered desk? A sunset over a mountainous landscape of cash? I don’t understand richy people. Think they’re so profound, so much better than everybody else. They’re just trying to compensate for their melancholy, eccentric natures, their loneliness. It must be awful to own a fortune 500 company. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#avant-garde #business #funny #wealth #art

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#communications #cryptography #did #expect #expected

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon. ↗

— John Doerr

#clearly #more #now #phenomenon #readers

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. ↗

— Aubrey F.G. Bell

#cervantes #don-quixote #great-books #man-of-la-mancha #modern-library

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation. ↗

— Denzil Douglas

#also #creation #draw #economic #factors

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#actually #becomes #choosing #close #experience

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#building #complex #doing #europe #find