#nate

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon. ↗

— Andy Van Slyke

#eliminate #every #grand #grand canyon #peaks

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#al gore #bill #bill clinton #clinton #congress

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#automatic #been #debate #democratic #democratic society

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#attentive #give #his #laws #like

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. ↗

— Donnie Yen

#director #festival #film #film festival #got

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.
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— Jarod Kintz

#artists #humor #illuminate #inform #show

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#contemplate #illuminate #inspirational #saint #shine

You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing--all of it...it is wrong. I want your version of life...vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you. ↗

— Sarah MacLean

#love #passionate-love #romance #beauty

Fun fact #1 about pomegranates: Pomegranates are awesome. Fun fact #2: Pomegranates are like little explosions of awesome in your mouth. Fun fact #3: A lot of people think you're not supposed to eat the seeds of a pomegranate - but that's not true, people who tell you that are liars, and they don't know anything about life, and they should never be trusted. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#tahereh-mafi #life

I made more decisions in a half-day as governor than you can make in a whole week in the Senate... it's too slow for me. ↗

— Chuck Robb

#governor #i #made #make #me