#tens

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#conditions #continuing #deeper #distress #important

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. ↗

— John Tillotson

#crafty #danger #dark #person #pretenses

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything. ↗

— Liz Phair

#approached #being #i #intensely #like

For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#i #intense #me #rather #than

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know? ↗

— Robert Plant

#british #i #know #ostensibly #really

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#critical #done #even #extensively #fairness

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#come #comedies #damaged #doing #easily

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. ↗

— Richard Powers

#binary #book #character #either #emotions

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#husband #i #pretension #really #say