“There are a lot of people who I look up to. I like what Ricky Gervais does, I also like Ron Howard. It's probably never going to happen, but if I had to pick a couple people, those are two.” PeopleIfsLooksDoeTwoHappensCouplePicksLook Up Author:Gerry Dee
“I mean, they were getting the mortgage of some guy in Omaha, you know, securitized a couple of times. I mean he had all these - they had all these types from Wall Street, you know, and they had advanced degrees, and they look very alert, and they came with these - they came with these things that said gamma and alpha and sigma and all that. And all I can say is beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas. They've heard that in Europe.” KnowsLooksMeanSaidI CanGuyHeardStreetsWallTypeCoupleDegreesEuropeFormulasGeekMortgageAlphasOmaha Author:Warren Buffett
“There are a lot of [Donald] Trump people, I mean, Trump, I remember hearing it, some of these rallies that he had talking about a special prosecutor, and his audience was responding wildly positively to it. So we'll see. Look, I do not think that Trump supporters are going to abandon him over this, and I don't think he's gonna lose any of them over this, but I do know a couple people are gonna be livid that it's not gonna happen.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLooksMeanHappensRememberLosesTalkingAudienceSpecialTrumpCoupleHearingAbandonSupporterPositivelyRespondingProsecutor Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We exchanged a couple of ideas and stuff like that, but that's about it. I just think ... consulting on 'Tintin' was very interesting because you try to ... not educate, but inform the animators [about] what the lighting looks like, but [in the end] they do it themselves. I don't actually go and sit there with them. [We] just had a couple of conversations.” ThinkingTryingLooksIdeasEndsStuffInterestingCoupleConversationEducateVery InterestingLightingConsultingAnimator Author:Janusz Kaminski
“A couple of years ago, my wife, Erica, and I were getting our daughter ready for school and an image of President [Barack] Obama was on one of the morning shows. And I said, oh, look, Carina, there's the president. You can be president one day. And she said, right away, that's for boys. And so right away I said, oh, no, you can be a doctor. You can be a lawyer. You can be anything you want. You can be president.” WantYearsLooksSaidShowsSchoolPresidentBoysMorningWifeReadyCoupleOne DayDaughterYears AgoDoctorsMy WifeLawyerBarackPresident Barack ObamaOur Daughter Author:Julian Castro
“This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.” WayYearsLooksHappensNextRealizingHalfCoupleDecadesBehave Author:Jay Mohr
“The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.” ThinkingWritingYearsLooksMemoriesCoupleThousandDetailsRecallsThousand YearsGood Memories Author:Kevin Starr
“Look at Senegal, about 90% of the Muslims in Senegal are Tijani or Qadiri Sufis. Among them, they have very great teachers who have written poems about al-Hallaj, and they have not been killed. In fact, it's Sufism that brought Islam through all of Senegal, right under our noses the last couple of centuries. And you can go down the same line through Indonesia and Malaysia.” LooksFactsLastsLinesTeacherWrittenCenturyCoupleIslamNosesAlsSufismSufiIndonesiaGreat TeacherMalaysia Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“In fact, when Bernard [Leach] would be called away to go up to London for something and we'd be living alone for a couple of days, we would dig into the storage areas in the house and we'd get out all the pots that we might not see in the course of our daily life, because we weren't using them in the house on a steady basis. But we found some fantastic pots in there tucked away, and we could look at them and examine them and handle them.” LooksFactsMightWould BeCoursesFoundHouseCoupleAreasBasesLondonHandleFantasticDaily LifePotSteadyStorageLiving Alone Author:Warren MacKenzie
“In fact, it was stated early in the first Bush [presidency], Bush I, in one of their documents they pointed out in the future, US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops. And Iif you take a look, that's what's done. Look at Panama, for instance, over a couple of days; and Kosovo, no American troops.” FirstsLooksWarDoneFactsEnemyCoupleReactionsInstanceTroopsDocumentsPresidencyKosovoPanamaAmerican Troops Author:Noam Chomsky
“As much as we - in a revisionist way - tell ourselves that we've always been a righteous country with a couple of swerves off the path, we need to look back and see that we've always also been a racist country and have had a tendency towards banal aggressiveness. The thing that's alarming is not so much that a few people in America at the top are initiating these crazy policies, but that the middle is willing to go there too. There's a strange movement of the middle to this position of banal aggressiveness.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksCountryAmericaPathCrazyMiddlePolicyMovementPositionStrangeWillingCoupleTendenciesRacistRighteousAggressivenessSwerve Author:George Saunders
“There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia Zhangke, one of the world's greatest film directors. He can only phrase his dissent obliquely, in his art. Writers in "free" societies labor under no such constraints. They can write more or less whatever they want in both their fiction and their commentary. Yet so many of them look oddly inhibited, even timid, and depressingly a couple of prominent figures actually positioned themselves to the right of their governments, intelligence agencies, and corporations.” WorldWantWritingLooksArtGovernmentTodayFilmFictionSituationFiguresSeriousCoupleDirectorsLaborChinaLimitationCorporationsPhrasesAgencyDissentConstraintsCommentaryFree SocietyProminentFilm DirectorsIntelligence Agencies Author:Pankaj Mishra