#what

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#achieve #acquired #along #amount #effect

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#i #strong #teaching #too #university

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#drafts #entirely #going #i #ignore

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups. ↗

— Sean Parker

#any #conform #every #expect #group

There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. ↗

— Sean Parker

#around #bonds #break #came #conform

We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.' ↗

— Trey Parker

#burn #come #down #episode #fun

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#especially #influence #me #mother #parents

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#brought #just #justice #may #must

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#beyond #either #established #fangs #fixes

If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way. ↗

— Carly Patterson

#best #best way #competitor #could #did