#bout

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#also #battles #between #conflict #deeply

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#basically #been #convention #conventions #debates

Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#chance #channels #cut #every #every time

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page. ↗

— Pippa Evans

#anything #become #knowing #never #page

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#any #bare #blew #completely #door

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#characters #feel #hopefully #i #life

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actually #autobiographical #confused #get #i

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#another #another day #cannot #day #done

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#build #chance #democracy #enough #explain

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#already #amazed #character #episodes #george