#so

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#exciting #frankly #i #liberating #pretend

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#changes #differentiation #eminently #exists #god

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead! ↗

— James Howard Kunstler

#clown #clowns #community #social-criticism #the-united-states

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. ↗

— Susan Lieberman

#confusing #confusion #counter #define #family

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things. ↗

— Bai Ling

#buy #expensive #flowers #gifts #guys

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#american #american president #english #king #lord

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. ↗

— George Lucas

#movie #music #sound

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#been #benefits #captured #counterparts #disparity

I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl. ↗

— Demi Moore

#certainly #first #girl #i #man