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I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale." George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences. To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete's foot . . . PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose! . . . So many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick. They have taken charge of communications and the schools, so we might as well be Poland under occupation. They might have felt that taking our country into an endless war was simply something decisive to do. What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. They are going to do something every fuckin' day and they are not afraid. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reasons that they don't give a fuck what happens next. Simply can't. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! Fuck habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass! There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. ↗


— Kurt Vonnegut


#government #insanity #psychopathic-personalities #reality-tv #communication

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best. ↗


— Stephen Ambrose


#about #american #best #brightest #century

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died. ↗


— Stevie Smith


#dying #endure #life #study-to-deserve-death #suicide

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings. ↗


— Jeff Goldblum


#guest #house #i #into #little

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras. ↗


— Dido Armstrong


#got #i #inspired #orchestras #orchestration

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. ↗


— Kenneth Joseph Arrow


#ii #interrupted #like #many #others

Well, I would never do a study because I'm a practicing physician. I mean, all I do is treat people. ↗


— Robert Atkins


#i #i do #mean #never #people

Advice? Fail constantly. Because the word doesn't mean what you think it means, especially when you're an artist. I use the word artist to mean everything from songwriting to writing a novel to even writing video games. Anything that tells a story, which is almost any medium. Gotta take risks, you gotta go through multiple drafts which means you have to FAIL, a lot. So you won't always get the reaction you always want from every single person, so when you lose that fear of failure, when you stop even thinking of it as failure, and you push yourself farther, you'll take bigger risks, and eventually, after about six or seven hundred rejections, you'll find success. And you'll find a way of conveying what you really want to say, in the best manner. ↗


— Victor Giannini


#reading #students #teaching-as-leadership #leadership

She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her, for I believe it is one of his greatest pleasures in this life, my father bought a pair of blue silk stockings for me the day we received my letter of acceptance. That evening and the next, father and I dined alone. ↗


— Gwenn Wright


#chick-lit #gender-studies #gothic-romance #historical-fiction #powerful-women

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me. ↗


— Alan Ladd


#acting #gimmicks #good #i #know






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