#tract

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#irony #men #more #movies #person

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#attraction #better #concern #forced #gaining

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#comic #describing #impossible #joke #near

So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles. ↗

— Steve Case

#best #comfort #comfort zone #figure #fill

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#distract #film #help #interest #less

I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#common #contact #din #horrible #i

Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many. ↗

— James Chanos

#bubble #buildings #call #come #complex

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

#attractiveness #bar #bribes #feet #highest

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both. ↗

— John Cleese

#attractive #both #bright #britain #case

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers. ↗

— Bob Filner

#another #attract #behind #best #child