#ems

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems. ↗

— James Franco

#ago #based #film #film school #films

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take. ↗

— Barney Frank

#based #broader #compensation #country #decisions

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children. ↗

— Barney Frank

#authority #between #children #consensual #deep

God helps those who help themselves. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#help #helps #themselves #those #who

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. ↗

— Gustav Stickley

#bare #beauty #charm #clearly #curves

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#clearly #confess #feel #i #i feel

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#certain things #change #die #end #happen

That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#all night #away #concert #day #entertainment

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#here #improper #me #noun #proper

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#i #i think #identify #kind #lesbian