#ground

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. ↗

— Charles Vest

#advanced #agency #been #bit #come

I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#around #basically #being #enjoy #feel

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground. ↗

— Chogyam Trungpa

#conquering #earth #ground #often #people

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#fact #gimmick #in fact #just #me

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#grounded #my own #own #reinforced #spiritual

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#characters #ground #i #kind #most

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#brother #business #education #fashion #had

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#been #before #catch #girl #gonna

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#could #failed #flip #fly #ground