#par

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#balance #balances #branches #check #checking

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#corrupt #each #i #i think #life

I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#feel #fortunate #i #i feel #icon

The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#committee #fact #in the past #into #million

I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#find #had #i #know #lucky

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#beliefs #comfortable #extremely #feel #i

It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence? ↗

— Isabel Lopez

#separation #sibling-relationships #silence #dreams

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#aids #apart #because #change #characters

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#find #like #lots #particular #people

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another. ↗

— Colin Firth

#another #associate #i #loser #one time