#them

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them. ↗

— Dan Glickman

#business #china #constructive #economy #got

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them. ↗

— M. Kathleen Casey

#basic #human #inherent #people #readily

Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#experience #film #going #government #government officials

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#audience #choice #equal #every #execute

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#because #certain #certain degree #degree #engaged

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#excuse #generally #gives #got #gratuitous

I think that if my kids are completely convinced of God's unfailing love for them, whether they fail or not, they'll have confidence to persevere in life. ↗

— Amy Grant

#confidence #convinced #fail #god #i

Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#better #contrary #crises #deal #i

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#choices #feel #life #lot #make

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't. ↗

— David Gill

#mercenary #out #people #players #quite