#stan

I hated stand-up. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#i #stand-up

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#commercials #executives #fast #forward #getting

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#any #beauty #belief #best #currency

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#every #good #good thing #stands #thing

Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#cale #four #hoffman #hypocrisy #hypocrites

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival. ↗

— Mo Yan

#army #boy #constant #country #country boy

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#am #awareness #both #chinese #conflict

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#history #i #long-standing #respecting #wishes

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#chuck #existing #forgive #look #minds

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#capacity #circumstances #either #little #love