#aria

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

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#conservative #conventional #i #i think #libertarian

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#against #basic #catholics #church #clearly

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals. ↗

— Barack Obama

#attack #bombs #civilians #combat #continue

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#academy #central #chemical #chemistry #establish

In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future. ↗

— John Olver

#build #civil #conflict #doctors #elements