#the

The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#bones #girl #i #kirk #little

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#because #child #childhood #corner #could

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#also #bob #bob dylan #brilliant #cool

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#because #get #i #outsider #people

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#bring #building #doom #doorstep #even

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children. ↗

— John Doolittle

#certainly #children #conception #country #courts

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them. ↗

— Richard Dooling

#because #computers #created #credit #default

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#another #dialect #hard #only #perfected

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world. ↗

— John Doolittle

#around #belief #country #democracy #freedom

Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows. ↗

— John Doolittle

#getting #heard #hoping #newspapers #outlandish