#shared

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cells #day #driving #each #energy

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#confidence #global #global market #held #market

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#big #confidence #executives #fat #greek

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#great number #implicit #level #number #philosophy

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#also #best #care #different #director

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. ↗

— Gerard Way

#anyone #anything #band #cool #different

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#core #decency #endless #i #i love

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#baby #breaking #depression #down #i

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. ↗

— Laura Bush

#alone #book #books #into #lies

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. ↗

— John le Carre

#cold war #during #great #gripped #i