#mean

I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#anybody #business #everybody #force #i

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#better #change #changes #conversation #forgotten

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should. ↗

— Alan Alda

#belief #believe #comes #i #i believe

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#critic #entailed #generalized #him #impossible

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#avoiding #each #equals #means #offense

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#change #conflict #friction #means #movement

When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius! ↗

— Ted Allen

#chef #chihuahua #chopped #crazy #dish

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#because #coerce #coercive #confessions #consistency

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#because #circumstances #life #matter #meaning

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#down #him #hold #keep #long