#tract

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. ↗

— Sissela Bok

#both #breathing #burden #childhood #confers

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good. ↗

— Chris Evans

#car #contract #fortunate #goal #gold

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#because #big #come #contract #expectancy

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#blood #constructed #diluted #extract #flows

The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#bones #girl #i #kirk #little

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#always #amazed #attraction #both #celebrity

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.' ↗

— Ree Drummond

#black #cookbook #heels #i #love

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#abstract #avoid #behind #beings #concrete

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#art #attraction #because #being #brought

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #felt #i #involved #like