#mic

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on. ↗

— Stephen Root

#book #comic #comic book #fan #i

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anti-semitism #been #desperate #economic #i

Barack Obama is an economic patriot. ↗

— Ted Strickland

#barack obama #economic #obama #patriot

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#economic #economic life #life #meet #needs

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#ayn rand #because #compassion #economical #fiction

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do. ↗

— Anna Sui

#become #chinese #designer #had #i

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#everybody #i #notion #single #some

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#even #idea #inconvenient #laws #repeal

There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#adding #anything #between #big #big difference

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal. ↗

— John Sununu

#any #because #capability #chemical #disposal