#yin

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#doing #films #gratifying #little #lives

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky. ↗

— Ted Danson

#another #drops #flies #flying #heck

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil? ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#christians #decades #evil #exterminate #give

You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#kitchens #out #playing #start #up

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#democratic #democratic party #far #go #gone

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. ↗

— Alexander Fleming

#appearance #astonishing #been #chance #extraordinary

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#i #prolong #shall #them #trying

At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#any #anything #big #big mistake #calculated

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#could #dissecting #figure #first #having

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care. ↗

— Michael Korda

#already #bad #bad news #calmly #care