#mati

Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#american people #another #avoided #conflict #conflicting

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#dramatically #either #election #emergence #existing

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#certainly #comedy #context #dramatic #find

I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority. ↗

— Barney Frank

#automatically #being #felt #gay #i

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#disposable #information #lack #lament #nature

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#begins #first #get #happened #i

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#around #between #family #father #give

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#changes #come #deal #difficult #emotionally

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#music #transformative #utterly