#vent

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#blog #capital #citizen #gore #government

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#conventional wisdom #everything #filter #just #left

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#convinced #depends #events #far #happiness

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beauty #coercion #even #form #freedom

I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#ball #brilliant #christine #i #julia

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#being #better #breast cancer #cancer #days

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#crazy #drive #everything #facts #found

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet. ↗

— David Icke

#being used #catastrophe #complete #destruction #energies

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#bewildering #critics #invent #knows #others

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false. ↗

— Enya

#bit #carpet #events #false #glitzy