“All these things, social media or [smart] phones or the things that distract us from each other, are fairly new. They're all fairly new inventions, and I think we're in a stage where we sort of as a whole have gotten these new toys and we're just obsessed with playing with them. I feel like after a period of adjustment it will inevitably be a regression from where we are now.” ThinkingFeelsWholeSocialStageMediaPeriodsSmartPhonesSocial MediaInventionObsessedToysAdjustmentRegressionNew InventionsNew Toys Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.” PeopleMenCharacterFilmCertainImagineEventsHe ManInvolvedPeriodsResearchAspectAccountsExtraordinaryPhotographVersionsContactEstatesBiographiesClueFifthPersonaAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“What can you do? [Bernie] Sanders, as a Jewish man: What could Pharaoh do to extend his time, and stop the plagues from coming on Egypt? This is the modern "Egypt", Mr. Sanders. Let the Black man go and give us justice, and these things that are whipping you today will start diminishing, and you will get a longer period of time.” MenGivingTodayBlackJusticeModernPeriodsEgyptPlagueWhippingPharaohs Author:Louis Farrakhan
“I enjoy tasting [beer]. But I'm not a drinker, period. With my schedule, I don't really have time.” EnjoyPeriodsBeerSchedulesTastingDrinkers Author:Rona Ambrose
“Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them... They would be the leaders and the peasant women would be the masses.” Would BeWantedLeaderGroupsPeriodsMassIndiaPeasantsBourgeois Author:Vijay Prashad
“In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the struggle, whether you call it 'syndicalism' or 'anarchism' or, at the time, 'social democracy', eventually 'Communism', these were different theories of struggle. But all of them shared a basic understanding that the people...experience exploitation, they experience oppression, but they're not prepared to rise up.” PeopleDifferentLeftSocialUnderstandingStruggleDemocracyCenturyTheoryPeriodsLatePreparedOppressionCommunismExploitationTwentieth CenturyAnarchismTrajectorySocial Democracy Author:Vijay Prashad
“During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.” YearsPeriodsOrganizationUnemployed Author:Ella Baker
“I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.” ThinkingSelfWholeNamesInterestWhiteCareersProductsPeriodsDegreesGenerousProjectionOrganizational Author:Ella Baker
“[Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.” WhitePeriodsLobbyistsWalter White Author:Ella Baker
“I went through a very hairy period. I had a movie where I was going to play Walt Whitman that fell through. At the time, I had grown this huge beard and very long hair. But then, the movie got canceled, I had some other parts, and I currently have very short hair. So, when I look in the mirror, I don't know who I am exactly. It's interesting.” KnowsLooksLongPlayInterestingHugeHairPeriodsMirrorsWho I AmBeardWaltLong HairShort Hair Author:Jeff Bridges
“It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new devices would, in an earlier period, have been submitting to magazines and working on their first novels. But even in the midst of all these "digital products," the wonder of it is that there are still so many young writers who continue to believe in the venerable print novel as the corridor to fame and fortune.” WritingFirstsBelieveHas BeensStillsYoungWonderNovelProductsPeriodsFameDemandFortuneScriptsMagazinesDigitalMidstDevicesPrintFlocksCorridorsYoung Writers Author:Cynthia Ozick
“Also because few people were watching - aside from a healthy amount of incarcerated people, because M2 was offered in a lot of prisons - I was able to ask really long, kind of muso questions, that they loved. We could really geek out and talk about music for long periods of time, and that tape would just keep rolling and rolling.” PeopleKindLongAbleAsksAmountPeriodsHealthyPrisonTapeRollingGeekLong Periods Of TimeReally Long Author:Jancee Dunn
“Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were mainly civil servants: people who were serving the Government.” PeopleGovernmentGivenPositionPeriodsServantServingSubordinatesCivil Servants Author:Mahathir Mohamad
“I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.” PeopleKnowsPlayDreamFilmRolesPeriodsHappeningsIntenseDramaticStakesStressedStressed Out Author:Clea DuVall
“I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This is easy." And of course, I have since learned that acting has its periods of unemployment, and ups and downs. The first five years were really good to me.” YearsFirstsTwoIdeasCoursesEasyActingFivePeriodsNormalHotNo IdeaFive YearsUnemploymentUps & Downs Author:David Krumholtz
“The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.” LongIdeasBreakPeriodsTransition Author:Van Morrison
“I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.” TryingMatterWholeWantedPerspectivePeriodsReviewsTransition Author:Van Morrison
“I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.” SeemsWantedRecordsPeriodsDefinite Author:Van Morrison
“I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.” MeanIdeasReasonSongHappenedCouplePeriodsMythGypsyOf Context Author:Van Morrison
“[Jean-Paul] Sartre was a throwback to the existential period. I'm not really so much into that these days. I went through a period of going over things and looking at them again to see what they were. But I'm into psychiatry type things. I'm into philosophy. I'm into that sort of thing.” PhilosophyTypePeriodsThese DaysExistentialPsychiatryThrowbackPaul Sartre Author:Van Morrison
“If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.” IfsWantSchoolRocksPeriodsMythologyTransitionRock N RollDaddy Author:Van Morrison
“What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is.” PeopleChoicesCompanyRecordsPeriodsHappeningsAlbumsManagersTitlesTransitionRecord CompaniesHarvey Author:Van Morrison
“All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.” MenTryingLastsCommonMistakePiecesSubjectsPeriodsElementsStandardsStartingPhilosopherContemporaryConclusionAnalysisFixedPassiveTestimonyResortsStarting Point Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Normally you don't have the benefit of preparing someone to pay homage to you and what you've done in your life. Usually, you pass away and someone does a tribute to your character and who you were during a specific period of your life.” DoeDoneCharacterPayPeriodsBenefitsPreparingTributePassing AwayHomage Author:Usher
“I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us.” PeopleThinkingWritingMadeWarReadingWhitePeriodsSlaveryBurdenInequalityCivil WarFrozenAbrahamReconstruction Author:George Saunders
“I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.” ThinkingHumansCultureCompanyGraceOur LivesYouthHugeIndustryPeriodsDollarsRateResistanceInstanceCorporateThese DaysThriveRebellionMusic IndustryFuriousSavvyParcelEncroachmentYouth Culture Author:Ani DiFranco
“I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.” PeopleNeedsHeartSometimesHardEasyAdvicePeriodsTrainFollow Your HeartUnhealthyUnhealthy Relationships Author:Erykah Badu
“You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.” LooksActorsPeriodsDressesBunchExtrasTime PeriodsLining Up Author:Boyd Holbrook
“I feel responsible to know what I'm talking about and to actually express myself the way I choose. We have to put those messages on a global platform period. That, to me, is inspiring.” KnowsWayFeelsTalkingPeriodsMessagesResponsiblePlatforms Author:Kofi Siriboe
“The period of my service will depend on two conditions. Firstly, of course, there are rules stipulated by the Constitution, and I surely will not infringe them. But I am not sure whether I should take full advantage of these constitutional rights. It will depend on the specific situation in the country, in the world and my own feelings about it.” WorldShouldTwoCountryFeelingsCoursesMy OwnSituationRightsConditionsDependsPeriodsAdvantageConstitutionNot SureConstitutional Rights Author:Vladimir Putin
“I`m not sure that Enrique Pena expected Donald Trump to take him up on his offer to come to Mexico and meet with him in the short period of time that there is between now and the elections.” TrumpPeriodsOffersElectionExpectedNot SureMexico Author:Jose Diaz-Balart
“I think that, when Enrique Pena Nieto invited Hillary Clinton and invited Donald Trump to meet with him here in Mexico City, it was a thought that maybe, in the future, whoever won the presidency, during that transition period, or right after, would decide to come and visit Mexico.” ThinkingCitiesTrumpPeriodsClintonTransitionMexicoPresidencyInvitedMexico City Author:Jose Diaz-Balart
“We can tell the general public that the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank are not designed to finance the economy, but rather to ensure foreign trade turnover. Therefore, we need this level to be able to provide the necessary foreign trade turnover for such an economy as Russia's for a period of at least three months.” NeedsAbleThreeLevelsEconomyMonthsPeriodsGoldTradeRussiaFinanceCurrencyReservesThree MonthsCentral BanksGeneral PublicTurnoverForeign Trade Author:Vladimir Putin
“Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period in our economy, which has already no doubt adapted to the current situation.” GivingBelieveReasonSituationEconomyDoubtPeriodsGive MeCurrentsNo DoubtStableAdaptedUneasyIndicatorsCurrent SituationMicroeconomics Author:Vladimir Putin
“At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where I was scribbling a derivative [John Ronald Reuel ] Tolkien epic full of purple prose in tiny handwriting and thought to myself, "Damn! I am a writer! How did that happen?".” HappensSchoolReadingPeriodsSittingLibraryTinyDamnProsePrintCompositionEpicPurpleNotebookDerivativesHandwritingLeopardsSchool LibraryLeopard Print Author:Vera Nazarian
“There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.” PeriodsGood Times Author:Rob Lowe
“I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesProcessPoetPeriodsMajorsPressureTinyObservationSufficientFragmentsEmergingSkillfulSplinters Author:Conrad Aiken
“I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of a year and half when I only wrote half a play. If it depresses some critics that I seem prolific, well, that's their problem as much as mine.” IfsWritingYearsWellsTwoSometimesPlayProblemSeemsHalfWrittenMinesPeriodsCriticsDepressing Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it.” SaidStatesUseBigsRememberMemoriesSawsNeededPeriodsConcernedClintonGlassesInterviewsPrintWeekendSecretaryMemorialCiaFbiExitMemorial DayMagnifyingNo MemoryConcussionsMagnifying GlassMemorial Day Weekend Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.” EndsWantedLanguageFeltPeriodsPushingSomething NewStableJumping Author:Nigel Cooke
“Meek's Cutoff by Kelly Reichardt. It's beautifully shot. It's a complex story. The filmmaker gave a very patient and feminine touch to a story that takes place during a period of history that's very masculine, without losing any of the unforgiving harshness of the reality where the characters found themselves in.” CharacterStoriesRealityFoundPeriodsLosingShotsComplexesPatientFilmmakerFeminineMasculineMeekUnforgivingHarshness Author:Chloe Zhao
“When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.” PeopleYearsAbleAsksPeriodsAsk MeMisunderstanding Author:Jim Cramer
“If you faced a long hungry period with nothing between you and starvation but a bit of barley and a pig, you'd be better off turning the barley into beer and letting the pig starve.” IfsLongBitsPeriodsHungryBeerPigsBetter OffStarvationBarley Author:James Cameron
“That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.” WaitingCan DoPeriodsGreat ThingsDoing GoodBatteries Author:Teresa Nielsen Hayden
“Personally, I am enthusiastic about the future. You can be too. You are living in the most exciting period of time in history. Many reasons could be cited for that optimism. Yet your greatest source of hope and assurance is that you have the fulness of the teachings of the Master. They will show you how to live a good life. You can receive ordinances and covenants that when righteously lived assure true happiness and significant attainment.” ReasonShowsTeachingMastersSourcePeriodsOptimismExcitingSignificantGood LifeAssuranceEnthusiasticTrue HappinessAttainmentCovenantOrdinances Author:Richard G. Scott
“I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.” ForceNationsUnitedAcceptingPeriodsSolutionsOkayAgreeBordersPalestinianUnited NationsIsraeliConfederation Author:Yasser Arafat
“The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, 'Does it hurt?' or 'What were you thinking about just now?' The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one's life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college.” ThinkingYearsDoeSelfMomentsRememberLeftHurtAnswersCollegePeriodsHospitalsEpisodesIt HurtsLive In The MomentEvaluation Author:Daniel Kahneman
“Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.” PeopleKindSometimesAsksStrangePeriodsCatBoxesAsk Me Author:Temple Grandin
“The reason why feral kitties are hard to tame is because they have missed socialization the period - you need to be touching and petting those kittens when they are real young.” NeedsRealHardReasonYoungPeriodsReason WhyTouchingKittenKittiesSocialization Author:Temple Grandin