#ld

It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#drive #flying #full #going #how

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#another #diseases #estimated #europeans #far

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#coming #did #end #exhausting #fisheries

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#how #intelligence #man #shows #smart

Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#australia #bands #come #days #exotic

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face. ↗

— Selma Blair

#auditioning #came #cast #could #definition

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. ↗

— Leon Kass

#between #given #improve #savor #tension

I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business. ↗

— Selma Blair

#away #business #ever #everything #i

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career. ↗

— Selma Blair

#actress #based #career #characters #choices

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me. ↗

— Selma Blair

#child #cute #funny #hard #him