#ak

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#certain #overtakes #repose #sense #stop

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#checked #famous #got #i #just

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything. ↗

— Holly Valance

#everything #i #i see #insects #karma

I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#been #being #every #executive #executive producer

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#around #changed #make #men #reasonable

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though. ↗

— Gary Cole

#costume #did #i #makeup #my own

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time. ↗

— Gary Cole

#driving #getting #hitting #how #like

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian. ↗

— Juan Cole

#lot #persian #quite #read #speak

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. ↗

— Juan Cole

#discussions #dominate #i #i think #nevertheless