#ff

We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#brave #brave men #continue #difficult #face

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#any #art #beyond #death #different

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#death #effort #filibuster #know #purpose

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#bare #come #cool #different #disney

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#end #flavor #human #human suffering #in the end

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#different #hollywood #i #mean #shades

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. ↗

— Will Durant

#cannot #moralist #statesman

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#ask #big #go #i #just

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow. ↗

— Charles Durning

#anyhow #bring #closet #ephemeral #gone

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#chart #destiny #determination #good #greatest