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I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#around #critical #describe #distance #experience

The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#best #cared #characteristics #compassionate #ensure

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal #democratic

What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#being #bizarre #cameras #face #falling

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners. ↗

— Jimmy Stewart

#audience #customers #never #partners #treat

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#center #conservative #distracted #i #liberal

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#anything #ashcroft #attack #attorney #attorney general

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#bush #came #display #even #him

Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#commercial #doll #even #i #kid

I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#cast #child #commercial #commercials #definitely