#na

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#cinema #cost #culture #harm #losing

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. ↗

— John Updike

#barefoot #being #going #mere #naked

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#effect #half #leisure #little #movement

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#cheerful #consistently #express #future #human

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#bush #going #his #leadership #nader

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. ↗

— H. Beam Piper

#education #educational-system #faces #education

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book. ↗

— Iris Chang

#afterwards #asked #because #book #emphasized

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. ↗

— Iris Chang

#back #born #china #chinese #civil

There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash. ↗

— Iris Chang

#because #become #being #china #chinese

It's not that easy for some of these players in China to get the coaching they need. ↗

— Michael Chang

#coaching #easy #get #need #players