#ff

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#bomb #capacity #care #certain #cliff

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#attitudes #exposed #failure #leaders #life

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#conflicts #differently #information #leads #process

Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny. ↗

— Mike Myers

#bar #bench #chocolate #different #entertainment

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie. ↗

— Mike Myers

#audiences #before #being #character #day

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff. ↗

— Mike Myers

#come #dad #liverpool #often #out

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer. ↗

— Mike Myers

#because #beer #books #drinking #eating

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence". ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#amount #balance #been #concepts #constitutes

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#effective #enters #everything #factor #highly

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#build #equation #eventually #experiments #mathematics