#par

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#apathy #boredom #bullshit #europeans #goodness

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#capable #dancing #fact #getting #healthy

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#earn #entrepreneurs #found #i #less

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#coming #comparison #early #feminists #industrialized

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. ↗

— Austin Farrer

#acts #christ #christian #christian faith #divine

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#allow #budget #did #duty #falklands

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#happens #how #i #i love #learned

Parody is homage gone sour. ↗

— Brendan Gill

#homage #parody #sour

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself. ↗

— James Carville

#defend #i #i think #itself #party

'Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there. ↗

— Steve Burns

#been #blues #clues #good #hard