"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."

-- Tom Lehrer

#Inspirational Quotes #Work Quotes #People Quotes

“Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.”
“First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.
“Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.”

Source : Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”
“We can prevent more people from becoming more addicted - that's number one - with prescribing laws and making sure that people can't get too many of these opioids when they are initially prescribed them. Number two is, we have to make sure the millions of people who are already addicted have access to good and effective treatment. Finally, it's critical that we remove stigma and that's why we've made a film, to show that this can happen to anyone.”
“Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.”
“But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.”
“You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.”

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