#log

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#aspects #computers #degenerate #economic #economic system

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#ascribe #assume #basic #certain #civilization

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#impatience #intuition #logic #suspension

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#become #bit #close #close friends #down

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#change #change things #feel #ideologically #iran

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#acting school #catalogue #never #school #went

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#ideas #literally #new #new ideas #technology

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world. ↗

— James Buchan

#dominion #eternal #force #forms #god-given

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#being #breaking #breaking up #by the time #christine

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#character #crazy #down #had #i