#act

I have to say obviously it is not illegal for people to go to dinner and to socialise and take hospitality off members of the media organisations, but it was the scale and the timing and the frequency of contact that I thought was shocking. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#dinner #frequency #go #hospitality #i

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fog #ideas #impenetrable #inflate #inhibit

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#comic strip #doll #hobbes #i #issue

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. ↗

— Alan Watts

#act #being #beings #changing #delivered

It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#awful #better #change #gotten #gratifying

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#bands #copying #got #i #kid

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#character #doing #doing the right thing #get #looking

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#affirmative #affirmative action #awards #choices #compassion

I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#blackness #character #christianity #conservatism #defined