#ark

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#almost #become #boast #boasts #claim

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment. ↗

— Claudia Black

#coming #deal #deals #employment #great

I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in. ↗

— Frank Black

#charge #companies #dictate #everyone #everything

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it? ↗

— Richard Dawson

#came #canceled #cheek #clark #cole

We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it. ↗

— Jack Black

#ass #because #career #dark #dark ages

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences. ↗

— Taylor Dayne

#black #did #grew #how #i

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#books #course #crude #crude oil #doing

I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program. ↗

— Marsha Blackburn

#earth #eternal #eternal life #ever #favorite

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#america #brain #cancer #cell #cell research

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ↗

— William Blackstone

#been #bulwark #defense #england #ever