#presente

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#historical #institutions #losing #new #old

What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#big #big deal #body #bothers #culture

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#concern #condition #convey #fear #fun

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#around #because #been #difficult #done

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it. ↗

— Dick Morris

#against #break #civil #evenly #gay

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#character #desirable #diversity #great #intellectual

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles? ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#architecture #around #building #determines #get

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards. ↗

— Norman Granz

#artists #being #i #i do #i think

And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#church #course #developing #finished #his

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#haven #i #left #like #misrepresented