During the Hollywood studio system, they looked for people…

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it…

— K. Patricia Cross

“It’s funny how really smart people have the most unusual holes in their worldview and perception.”

— Nalini Singh

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

— Stan Lee

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who…

— Marcel Proust

The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I…

— Alice Dreger

Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.

— Oliver Herring

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm…

— James Cameron

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Thirty guys equals five percent die-off among active wingsuit base jumpers. That means there's a flaw in our system and you're an idiot if…

— Dean Potter

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary…

— Michael Portillo

The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;…

— Tom Wlaschiha

If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.

— Eliyahu Goldratt

I never wanted System to take a hiatus. I think it was a disastrous move for us, because we never reached our peak.

— John Dolmayan

Most of the time, I get around perfectly well on my bike and public transportation, even in spite of the Bay Area's almost comically…

— Steve Hilton