#off

All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#answering #basis #been #charges #defensive

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. ↗

— Ina Garten

#because #dinner #dinner party #drink #face

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#been #books #championing #country #i

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted. ↗

— Ina Garten

#bedtime #coffee #course #definitely #dessert

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#awesome responsibility #decide #democracy #die #go

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. ↗

— Bill Gates

#employers #few #find #get #helping

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. ↗

— Bill Gates

#coffee #go #jobs #leave #life

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. ↗

— Bill Gates

#day #debt #e-mail #every #every day

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#beforehand #done #film #had #head

I was such a big Dustin Hoffman fan when I was young. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#dustin #dustin hoffman #fan #hoffman #i