#out

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it. ↗

— Rodney King

#about #alive #blessed #here #i

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations. ↗

— Rodney King

#expectations #hard #i #king #life

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off." ↗

— Stephen King

#answered #destroyed #down #family #farm

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Stephen King

#beauty #beholder #children #eye #eye of the beholder

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. ↗

— Stephen King

#celebrity #celebrity culture #culture #discussion #gun

The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a "public purpose." ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#any #because #case #compensation #decided

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#again #clause #commerce #conservatives #court

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#be a man #blaming #everything #keep #losing

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go

What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

#counts #finally #maybe #me #only