#trap

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#better #better mousetrap #comes #government #invent

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#being #could #dance #fall #into

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#brother #change #complacent #constructed #feel

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#bodies #climbers #counter #inside #lot

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it! ↗

— George A. Romero

#does #filmmaker #genre #get #i

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#doing #i #into #kind #my own

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#anything #come #disagree #find #get

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#avoid #best #best way #die #follow

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in. ↗

— Judith Light

#closets #community #figure #gay #gay community

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out. ↗

— Lord Jeffrey

#doubtful #easily #ever #get #like