I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: ‘I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that’s all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.’ Karen Finerman Read Quote
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there’s excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. Robert Redford Read Quote
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there’s great truth in the songs, and that’s what was so wonderful to find. Bernadette Peters Read Quote
I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement. Cordae Read Quote
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. Alice Hamilton Read Quote
There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing. Zendaya Read Quote
I’m a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms. Ramez Naam Read Quote
If you’re playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it’s just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they’re bad. Walter Becker Read Quote
