#aria

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment. ↗

— Kate Millett

#based #becoming #capital #capital punishment #country

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those! ↗

— Tim Meadows

#different #during #early #had #high

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#connection #didactic #even #exist #great

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#believe #conservative #free #free markets #government

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#age #children #compensated #confirms #control

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#acting #classes #connected #did #dramatic

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone. ↗

— Donald Norman

#better #design #disabilities #everyone #invariably

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#benefit #certainly #chapter #congenial #cooperation

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#cool #eat #except #i #lion