#ted

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consumption #control #distracted #force #own

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two. ↗

— Chris Christie

#anybody #being #best #i #number

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure. ↗

— Julie Christie

#invented #just #marriage #marry #never

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile. ↗

— Walter Chrysler

#achieve #anything #excited #feel #genuinely

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#progress #scientific #state #technical #which

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#concurred #could #court #decision #four

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#contractual #i #marriage #partnerships #relationships

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#catholic #catholic church #church #come #either

And how do you confess to a beautiful woman that you can't fulfill a relationship because you're tormented by the presence of another woman that doesn't even exist? ↗

— Victoria Caro

#tormented-mind #beauty

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#edited #every #every day #experiences #go