#we

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. ↗

— Norman Lear

#activist #also #because #bipartisan #career

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people. ↗

— Norman Lear

#american people #controversial #heart #people #shows

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic. ↗

— Ang Lee

#dramatic #everything #goes #her #i

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain. ↗

— Norman Lear

#curtain #i #interrupted #want #went

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head. ↗

— Denis Leary

#any #character #circumstance #enough #head

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#age #alive #aristotle #did #feudalism

And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, he didn't use me. It wasn't hard for me to leave - it isn't my scene. I have nothing to do there. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#days #hard #his way #i #just

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#ability #artistic #both #burning #eat

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#break #chain #link #strongest #weakest