#sm

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#bad #bad review #criticism #crushing #either

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand. ↗

— Jason Patric

#blatant #brand #business #celebrity #exhibitionism

Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#doing #fellow #fine #fixed #governor

I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth. ↗

— John Thorn

#anticipated #attend #background #certainly #contemplated

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#challenge #fit #looking #matter #pieces

It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. ↗

— Alice Paul

#believe #better #concerned #debating #far

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that? ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#around #ceiling #floor #going #heard

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#alienation #away #basic #collectivism #countries

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#aggressiveness #already #challenge #different #dominion

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution? ↗

— Rand Paul

#constitution #debate #fear #much #our