#akin

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. ↗

— Alan Paton

#contribution #creative #different #each #envision

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole. ↗

— Lance Secretan

#cannot #commitment #effective #focused #leaders

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#always #american #being #comedy #cultural

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#been #big #big problem #country #days

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions. ↗

— Stuart Pearce

#decisions #eventually #football #i #making

They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse. ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#door #down #elvis #even #even worse

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field. ↗

— William Perry

#bowl #checking #down #field #flies

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#did #done #dream #film #friend

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes. ↗

— Pink

#caught #cigarettes #did #entire #grade

In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher. ↗

— Nelson Piquet

#making #michael #more #schumacher #than