#val

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#apart #because #believe #communications #conditions

...But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet... ↗

— Anna Gavalda

#beautiful #love #someone-i-loved #beauty

And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#bar #been #beer #changed #come

I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#charming #even #frog #frogs #i

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#consumption #gentleman #goods #leisure #means

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism. ↗

— Andy Dick

#defense #defense mechanism #i #i see #i think

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#bores #chivalry #dragons #past #succeeded

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever ↗

— Anne Frank

#strong

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#could #go #i #klein #muse

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#anyone #college #cost #degree #discourage