#thought

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#beings #conditioning #control #denial #forms

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#ancient #bigger #clearly #every #filtered

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#actor #each #his #should #stage

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

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They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good. ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

#experimenter #fun #good #i #interesting

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them. ↗

— Pete Best

#because #beside #business #could #daughters

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be. ↗

— John Betjeman

#any #good #i #i am #think

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.' ↗

— Debby Boone

#going #i #i love #like #love

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#aptly #author #being #book #first

I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#about #american #american movies #cell #cell phone