#rob

I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#journalist #learned #politician #probably #ridiculous

I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#attorney #attorney general #connection #counselor #documents

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. ↗

— Andrew Goodman

#black #constitute #current #deplorable #heeded

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#fragility #internet-addiction #modern-values #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#being #being a man #course #heterosexuality #homosexuality

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen. ↗

— Gordon Gould

#again #business #certainly #damn #damn thing

She watched through the window. Jerry was walking toward the house again. She waited. It seemed to take forever before there was a knock at the door. She stood there a minute as they looked at one another. He was the high school heartthrob she never had the chance to experience. This was the secret date with her parents away that never happened. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#knock-on-the-door #secret-date #watched #dating

What are you doing here, anyway? You don’t strike me as the speed dating type.’ ‘I lost a bet with Alfie,’ he says. ‘You met him at The Cow that day . . .?’ Waistcoat Guy, I think, nodding. ‘I said to him that if you didn’t text me back then I’d try speed dating, because I’m officially the worst single man in London.’ ‘You’re not!’ I say. ‘I mean, it wasn’t a bad date. I was just . . .’ ‘Don’t say you were drunk! It’s the biggest post-sex insult ever.’ ‘. . . drunk, I mean drinking, a bit more than I ought, and I was, uh, cringing at the thought that I’d been a nightmare date.’ ‘No. You were great,’ says Mark/Skinny Jeans. ‘Actually, the biggest post-sex insult is “we did?”’ says Robert. ‘But that’s another story. ↗

— Gemma Burgess

#robert-on-the-phone #speed-dating #dating

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it. ↗

— Macy Gray

#freedom #image #live #probably #up

We are really the victims of our own problems. ↗

— Jimmy Greaves

#own #problems #really #victims