#rest

Just because you don’t have an arrest record doesn’t mean you’re not a criminal. As proof, note some of the cleanest rap sheets in America belong to politicians. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#arrested #criminals #politics #politicians

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ago #american #center #challenge #colleague

And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#also #assert #commitments #declared #effort

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#could #easier #i #i wish #interesting

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ↗

— Edward Albee

#bad #define #fact #good #good writer

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. ↗

— Fred Allen

#imitation #sincerest #sincerest form #television

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#interesting #music #radio #tv #music

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#nature #restless #restlessness #nature

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#harmony #language #listening #nature #waves

A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden. ↗

— David Mitchell

#nature #nature