Uber didn't just need more women engineers, or more employees of color. It needed to stop breaking the law .... It didn't matter how many black engineers we hired, if they were discriminated against; it didn't matter how many women we put into positions of power, if those women perpetrated or enabled the illegal behavior.

Labels: book

Shorty Williams (Moe): Remember pardners, woman is the root of all evil.
Curly: Gimme some more of that root!

Rockin' in the Rockies (1945)

Labels: movie

The most important British legacy is doing things properly.... Good manners and low levels of serious corruption.

Labels: news, website

[Eve] Arnold photographed Aimée, who talked about her role as the character Justine. Justine was also Jewish. Arnold recalls one of their talks: I am still haunted by two things she quoted. They seemed to say more about her than anything else I experienced with her during the three weeks I knew her on the film: Quote from Treblinka: "The Jews are prone to anguish but seldom given to despair." And a quote by an anonymous Jewish poet to his wife when the Nazis came to get them: "Till now we have lived with fear, now we can know hope." Arnold, Eve. Film Journal, Bloomsbury Publishing (2002) pp. 193-194

Labels: book

There is a certain 'scum' quality in Latin America. They imagine that if you kill the right people everything will work.

Labels: interview

Think Like a Horse-Cowboy Wisdom-Rick Gore Horsemanship

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor, a perfect horse never made a horseman.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.

Just cause trouble comes visiting doesn't mean you have to offer it a place to sit down.

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction.

Nothing keeps you honest more that witnesses.

There are three kinds of men: the ones that learn by reading; the few who learn by observation; the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence.

If there is a hole in your story or your fence, something you rather did not get out, will.

Just because you are traveling a well marked trail, doesn't mean whoever made it knew where they was going.

Whether the glass is half-full or half empty, depends on whether you are drinking or pouring.

Firewood warms you twice, when you cut it and when you burn it.

The difference between young liars and old thieves is just a matter of time.

Money may buy you a dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Labels: website

This is literally from the Boden catalogue, but what I like is when they ask the catalogue models a bunch of questions. Spring 2014 produced fresh and witty replies:

Arlenis, what's a good measure of success?
Arlenis: The number of times you laugh each day.

Arlenis, what is your greatest extravagance?
Arlenis: Sleep.

Arlenis, best advice?
Arlenis: Don't wait for things to happen.

Arlenis, what gets easier as you get older?
Arlenis: Listening.

Arlenis, my most treasured possession:
Arlenis: My watch.

Cintia, you can never...
Cintia: Recreate the past.

Cintia, best way to fall asleep quickly?
Cintia: Spending 12 hours on a photo-shoot.

Arlenis, best way to fall asleep quickly?
Arlenis: Spend 12 hours on a photo-shoot.

Arlenis, thing I'd like to tell my 16 year old self...
Arlenis: Life will get easier.

Cintia, my mantra of the moment:
Cintia: The best is yet to come.

Giedre, the British should be proud of...
Giedre: Everything.

Giedre, you can never...
Giedre: Be over-educated.

Egle, best advice?
Egle: Don't wait for things to happen.

Giedre, greatest British contribution to civilization?
Giedre: Good manners.

Giedre, a true friend will tell you:
Giedre: When food is stuck in your teeth.

Giedre, most life changing invention:
Giedre: Modern dentistry.

Giedre, my most treasured possession:
Giedre: Family.

Giedre, best advice?
Giedre: Get on with it.

Egle, what gets easier as you get older?
Egle: Being myself.

Inguna, what is your greatest extravagance?
Inguna: Sleep.

Inguna, best advice?
Inguna: Don't wait for things to happen.

Inguna, thing I'd like to tell my 16 year old self...
Inguna: Nothing matters as much as you think.

The landlord: He who signs a lease must pay rent. That's the law.
Max Bialystock: You miserable wretch! How dare you take the last penny out of a poor man's pocket?
The landlord: I have to. I'm a landlord.
Max Bialystock: [to God] Oh, Lord, hear my plea; destroy him! He maketh a blight on the land!
The landlord: [also to God] Don't listen to him; he's crazy.

Leo Bloom: Let's assume, just for the moment, that you are a dishonest man.
Max Bialystock: Assume away.

Max Bialystock: It's practically a love letter to Hitler!
Leo Bloom: This won't run a week.
Max Bialystock: A week?! Are you nuts? This play's gotta close on Page 4!

Max Bialystock: How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?

Don't be stupid! Be a smartie!
Come and join the Nazi Party!
(sung by Mel Brooks)

Labels: movie

Reporter: And what, in the opinion of Your Highness, is the outlook for friendship among nations?
Princess Ann: I have every faith in it... as I have faith in relations between people.
Joe Bradley: May I say, speaking for my own... press service: we believe Your Highness's faith will not be unjustified.
Princess Ann: I am so glad to hear you say it.
Another reporter: Which of the cities visited did Your Highness enjoy the most?
General Provno: [prompting] Each, in its own way...
Princess Ann: Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to — Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

Labels: movie

Notes from The Pink Panther wiki:
A Shot in the Dark featuring Peter Sellers - Released less than a year after The Pink Panther. Clouseau returns to bumble his way through a murder investigation. This also marks the first appearance of both Herbert Lom's Charles Dreyfus and Burt Kwouk's Cato.

Chief Inspector Dreyfus: (praying) If someone has been murdered here... please let it be Clouseau, hm?

Dreyfus: Give me ten men like Clouseau and I could destroy the world.


(In trying to murder Clouseau with a car bomb, Dreyfus has just killed all the suspects in the case)

Dreyfus: (balefully) That was meant for you...
Clouseau: What do you mean, it was meant for me, Commissioner?
Dreyfus: A doorman, two customers, and a Cossack... And now, six more innocent people!
Clouseau: They were all murderers, except for Maurice, who was a blackmailer, Commissioner!
Dreyfus: Compared with you, they were all saints!

Labels: movie