#who

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. ↗

— Chuck Close

#about #discovered #dots #fewer #give

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#anchored #central #european #his #i

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#career #dreamed #even #ever #i

Sometimes when a scene is written or directed to be shouted or played incredibly angrily, I always think it's way more terrifying when someone is fuming and talks in a very calm way. I always want people to shout at me if they're angry - it freaks me out that whole thing of, 'I'm not angry I'm just disappointed.' ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#angrily #angry #calm #directed #disappointed

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes. ↗

— Brian Clough

#barely #crap #games #how #know

So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#because #been #careful #everywhere #go

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#hated #i #i am #loved #rather

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. ↗

— Max Eastman

#brute #enemy #face #facts #hope

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#above #angry #big #challenge #diminish