#mode

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that. ↗

— Catherine Bell

#acting #before #couple #i #model

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it. ↗

— Brian Michael Bendis

#comics #even #i #into #know

Modesty is my best quality. ↗

— Jack Benny

#modesty #quality

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#capitalism #democratic #democratic society #economy #example

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#co-operation #complex #elements #employ #experimentation

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#congress #country #developed #different #divide

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#control #earth #eminently #foundation #land

On their own merits modest men are dumb. ↗

— George Colman

#men #merits #modest #own #their

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#modern-life #beauty

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#role-models #greed