January 2012
23 posts
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
– Victor Hugo (via bigmagnets)
“We’ve become a country that values shareholders over citizens, and it’s this...”
– Jon Stewart, The Daily Show (via madelinelime)
Watchnprfreshair:
Terry was on The Colbert Report last night. If you missed it, you can watch the video here. Also, here’s a list of the interviews Stephen mentioned during their chat:
Grover Norquist on Fresh Air
Bill O’Reilly on Fresh Air
Stephen Colbert on Fresh Air
“The great conservative bugaboo, Obamacare, is also far more moderate than its...”
– Andrew Sullivan absolutely kills this. He defends Obama’s first term as remarkably prolific, moderate and true to principle. Hear, hear. (via thecallup)
“A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses it to come to a...”
– Alain de Botton on false standards and reclaiming the metrics of success. (via curiositycounts)
“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the...”
– Anne Lamott on intuition vs. rationality, alongside similar sentiments by Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs (via curiositycounts)
“Understand that a non-fiction book is a souvenir, just a vessel for the ideas...”
– Seth Godin’s advice for (non-fiction) authors (via austinkleon)
December 2011
9 posts
“The math is the math. You can’t lower current (tax) rates and raise revenue...”
– President BARACK OBAMA, responding to Republican charges that he is “fixated” on “raising the tax rates for the wealthiest Americans,” on 60 Minutes.
This whole thing, summarized so simply and yet the conservative element in these United States continues to pretend not to understand the sheer,...
“My generation of actresses — my friends, my cohort — should be working at the...”
– Meryl Streep,
Meryl Streep: A life beyond reproach
“My generation of actresses — my friends, my cohort — should be working at the...”
– Meryl Streep,
Meryl Streep: A life beyond reproach
“I am not saying that gay people can’t or don’t commit crimes,” she said. “They...”
– Hillary Clinton
The New York Times, “U.S. to Use Foreign Aid to Promote Gay Rights Abroad.”
November 2011
7 posts
“The area in my presidency where I think we made the most mistakes was less on...”
– Obama in the new book “Confidence Men”
this is my #1 issue w/ his first term…can’t get credit for things when you communicate them ineffectively….
October 2011
25 posts
“Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this...”
– Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man (via colourmegreenwich)
“Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It...”
– —The Last Kiss (via makethecut:thedailycourtney)
(via ellens)
“It’s part of the American way to get a lot of self-worth from your job....”
– The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright NY Mag (via somethingchanged)