#ai

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas. ↗

— Chris Bell

#because #complaint #congressional #corruption #delay

Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and not just to a closed circle of entrenched ideologues. ↗

— Chris Bell

#challenges #choose #circle #closed #democracy

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

I have the mouth of a sailor. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#mouth #sailor

I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me. ↗

— Lake Bell

#am #best #chain #collect #family

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

#adherence #based #doctrinaire #everyone #evolution

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. ↗

— Maria Bello

#fairy #fairy tale #great #i #i always

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out. ↗

— Troian Bellisario

#hate #having #i #i feel #i feel like

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#becoming #building #drained #emotional #emotionally

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older. ↗

— Maria Bello

#age #been #getting #getting older #i