#gist

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too. ↗

— Mike Myers

#guy #i #logistical #loved #over

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#dismiss #iran #islamic #more #part

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#criticism #culture #especially #in the past #iran

I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#because #brains #differently #everybody #extra

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#democrat #determined #era #franklin #i

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist. ↗

— Emo Philips

#cd #dutch #german #missionaries #released

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO. ↗

— Michael Porter

#chief #leader #organization #strategist

If you're in charge of managing domain name space you should treat everybody who asks for a registration the same. Whatever that is - whether it's nice or ugly or whatever - just be fair, treat them all the same. ↗

— Jon Postel

#charge #domain #everybody #fair #just

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#comes #emotional #had #having #impact