#emo

The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#democracy #elections #last #our #reclaim

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#beasts #demons #heroic #i #like

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#emotion #emotions #full #harder #masks

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. ↗

— Donna Leon

#because #book #books #happens #i

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#accept #control #culture #democratically #develop

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#allow #between #corrupt #democrats #difference

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. ↗

— Primo Levi

#carved #change #erased #even #extraneous

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#always #audience #away #certain #certain things

The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art. ↗

— Steven Levy

#biological #computer #creation #emotions #even

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#democracy #handle #hard #people #regime