#bs

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#default #fact #government #inside #journalists

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. ↗

— Washington Irving

#continually #ears #ever #fat #heading

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. ↗

— Washington Irving

#create #disadvantage #every #irresistible #minds

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#i #immigrants #jobs #know #like

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#allowed #australia #disaster #government #i

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they'll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they've clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding! ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#also #award #bleeding #boast #clicked

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#between #board #business #conflict #create

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.' ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#body #get #i #jobs #opened

Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#again #any #apple #bill #bill gates

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#fewer #five #had #i #listeners