#bs

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#absolute #against #characters #enough #i

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#better #bill #bill gates #billionaires #carnegie

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#angry #debate #democrats #even #even worse

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#media #obsessed #personality #simultaneously #technology

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#biggest #could #gift #happen #i

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#also #guitar #i #love #philharmonic

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#case #child #college #dad #entirely

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked. ↗

— John Anderson

#australia #course #depend #easily #exports

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#ahead #audience #film #get #great

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#difference #facts #obscure #truth #world