#selective

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#army #civilian #draft #everyone #life

If you are committed, you can select your thoughts and thereby shape your life here on earth into something spectacular. The alternative is to give up this freedom and live a life of mediocrity dominated by uncertainty and suspense. ↗

— Tommy Newberry

#the- #freedom

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#closed #come #concept #confronted #europe

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#appeal #audience #broad #cheaper #cost

When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection. ↗

— Gabriel Lippmann

#appears #because #colour #light #reflection

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. ↗

— Eric Liu

#action #affirmative #affirmative action #arguing #cal

We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#hear #hearing #humans #memory #only

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#accept #denial #i #just #reality

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#away #degree #disciplinary #drift #expansion

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around. ↗

— Julie Walters

#daughter #family #got #her #i