#ate

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. ↗

— Paul Valery

#enriched #our #reciprocate

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#any #country #free #free society #freedom

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#control #democracies #exercised #ideological #indoctrination

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#atrocities #called #coming #go #government

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#beaten #being #car #five #group

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#cultural #deficit #even #history #human

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#big #booming #covers #hate #love

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#bringing #cheated #childhood #comedy #controlled

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#city #constant #constant state #great #i

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#boat #days #doing #five #i